Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - Gunmen have kidnapped an army ranking officer simply identified as Lt Colonel Josiah in Bomadi local government area of Delta State.
The military officer was abducted from his lodge on Monday,
September 8, 2025 after attending a marriage ceremony.
The incident has caused panic in the riverside town, with
soldiers from the Bomadi Division of the military Joint Task Force (JTF)
patrolling Bomadi and surrounding communities.
According to Vanguard, Lt Colonel Josiah attended a marriage
ceremony at Kpakiama community, a neighbouring community of Bomadi, over the
weekend.
After attending the ceremony, he proceeded to his lodge at
Bomadi, the council’s headquarters.
A source, who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that the
kidnappers, who were armed, struck at the lodge around 2 am to 2.30 am,
ransacked various rooms, took the phones of lodgers and whisked away the
military officer in a ready vehicle.
“The kidnappers came to the hotel around 2 am to 2.30 am
last night. They searched every room, took the phones of lodgers and forced the
military officer to the outside. They even shot a gun before zooming out of the
hotel premises with the military officer in their vehicle. There was also blood
on the ground after they had left the premises,” the source said.
"The following day, we heard that the JTF had found the
vehicle in which they carried out the operation in neighboring Tuomo community,
which was abandoned by the side of the
Tuomo-Ogbobagbene-Tamigbe-Torugbene-Ojobo road. The vehicle has already been
brought to their base at Bomadi-Overside,” he said.
However, there is tension in Bomadi and environs over the
incident, with residents expressing the fear of the unknown over what they
termed possible transferred aggression on ordinary citizens with strict
measures.
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