Police Rescue NURTW Member Held In Monarch’s Palace By His Abductors

A National Union of Road Transport
Workers, NURTW, member, Bernard
Oyeogun, kidnapped, Wednesday, by a
rival faction in Agbor, Delta State, has
been rescued by the police from the
palace of a royal father, (names withheld), where he was unlawfully held
for one night. Acting on a tip-off, the Divisional Police
Officer, DPO, in the area stormed the
palace with policemen on Thursday and
unchained the victim, according to
reports. He was battered by his captors and there
was fear, yesterday, that he might go
blind. There has been a simmering dispute
between two factions of the union in the
area and a source told Vanguard that the
national executive of the union dissolved
the chapter, yesterday afternoon, after
it was briefed on the development. The royal father was said to be away
from his palace when the incident
occurred, but he, allegedly, has
sympathy for one of the rival factions. Two persons, aged 31 and 41 years
respectively have been arrested in
connection with the incident. Confirming the incident and the arrests,
Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO,
Delta State, Lucky Uyabame said, the
Divisional Police Officer, Agbor, led his
patrol team to the palace of the
monarch, where they found the victim, who was assaulted and taken hostage
from the Agbor-Ogwashi-Uku motor
park, Agbor by three members of the
rival group.