The security operatives combing the bush in Edo State have seen and rescued one of the five victims kidnapped at Isuwa, near Okada, on Saturday.
The victims were kidnapped on the spot where Felix Sowore, the younger brother of the convener of ‘Revolution Now’, Omoyele Sowore, was killed.
The younger Sowore, who until his death was a student in the Faculty of Pharmacy, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, was according to the police, a victim of circumstances, as he drove into the firing line of the kidnappers, who were attacking passengers of a broken-down commercial vehicle.
Announcing the rescue of the victim, the Edo Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Bello Kontongs, said that the rescued victim is a Reverend Sister.
In a message sent to journalists at about 7.35 pm, and titled “Rescue of Kidnapped Victim”, Kontongs added that rescue operations were still going on for the remaining four victims.
The message reads: “This is to inform you that one of the five kidnapped victims, Reverend Sister Emmanuella Anyanwu, kidnapped at Isuwa by Morgan Farm on 04/09/2021, has been rescued, unhurt. Rescue ops is still ongoing to ensure all other victims are rescued unhurt.”
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, it would be recalled, had in a condolence message to the elder Sowore on Saturday, vowed that his administration would work with all security agencies to ensure that the killers of the younger Sowore were brought to book.
