A Land Cruiser Jeep, belonging to the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has been snatched by suspected armed robbers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
According to sources close to the Niger Delta �nationalist�, as he prefers to be called, Dokubo-Asari was not in the black Jeep when it was snatched around the Agip Junction area of Port Harcourt at gunpoint.
The sources said that the jeep was being taken to where it was bought for servicing when the robbers blocked it with their vehicle and took it at gunpoint, adding that it was bought just a day before it was snatched.
“The robbers took the car with its occupants as ‘hostages’, drove them to the waterside and ordered them out.
The leader and spokesperson of the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), Cynthia Whyte, confirmed the incident, but said since he was not in town when the incident took place, he did not have enough details on it.
When called for confirmation, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Felix Ogbaudu, said no such report had reached his office.
In another development, there are fears that three unidentified expatriates might have been abducted by a group of armed hoodlums in Port Harcourt on Sunday.
The expatriates, said to have been abducted around Elekahia area of the city, could not be identified as at press time.
Though Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Ireju Barasua, said she had heard of the kidnap, she said she had no further details.