BREAKING: Kidnapped ABSU Lecturer Regains Freedom

According to a university source, one of the kidnapped lecturers at Abia State University Uturu, ABSU, Don Chris Afulike of the Department of Mass Communication, has regained his freedom.

Mr Chijioke Nwogu, the institution’s Public Relations Officer, told Vanguard in a telephone conversation that the lecturer regained his release on Friday night.

He, on the other hand, declined to elaborate on how the abducted lecturer was released, just stating that the university community was delighted that the victim was no longer in captivity.

The other victim, Rev. Professor S. O. Eze of the Department of Industrial Chemistry, has yet to be released, according to the university official.

On Thursday evening, the lecturers and other commuters were abducted by suspected Fulani bandits terrorizing vehicles on the Uturu/Isuikwuato Road.

When the tragedy occurred, they were on their way to Item for a religious activity.

After bringing their vehicles to a halt due to the occasional gunshots, their kidnappers are claimed to have marched them into the wilderness.

Despite pledges from security officials that the matter would be addressed, kidnappings for ransom by Fulani bandits have continued in the Isuikwuato/Bende axis.