Gunmen have reportedly killed a safety guard and kidnapped Alhaja Seliat Raji, a sister to famend authorized luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Alhaji Ahmed Raji (SAN) in Iseyin, Oyo State.
A supply mentioned that the armed kidnappers arrived on the residence on a bike however left the scene of their sufferer’s Lexus automobile.
The incident, LEADERSHIP learnt, has plunged Iseyin into panic amid renewed safety threats locally and its environs.
The sufferer was kidnapped at her residence within the night of Thursday Could 16, at 8pm in a saddening improvement characterised by sporadic capturing.
The closely hooded kidnappers additionally slaughtered the safety guard manning the home earlier than storming the parlour the place their goal was watching tv.
Household supply mentioned that the abductors had reached out to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria demanding ransom.
“They’ve known as SAN and made their factors clear,” a supply mentioned.
“They need a ransom. However they haven’t acknowledged the quantity they need to accumulate. Everyone seems to be now in panic,” the supply mentioned
Safety personnel have been stationed on the Raji’s residence alongside Iseyin-Saki Highway to ensure security amid escalating fears.
Police operatives, Amotekun, males of Operation Burst and others have been seen on the home’s gate, whereas some others have been stationed on the entrance gate of former state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP), Alhaji Kunmi Mustapha.