UNIPORT Don Freed Four Weeks After Abduction

Hamilton Nwosa
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UNIPORT Don Freed Four Weeks After Abduction

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By Hamilton Nwosa(Head, The New Diplomat’s Polling, Research & Data desk)

Head of Department of Linguistics and Communications Studies at the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, Dr. Jones Ayuwo, has been released by his abductors after four weeks in captivity.

Confirming the release to the New Diplomat yesterday, spokesman of the Rivers State Police Command, SP Nnamdi Omoni, said a comprehensive statement will be issued on the rescue of the don.

Ayuwo who was abducted on Febuary 21, 2021 is an indigene of Ataba town, in Andoni area Council of the State.

Ayuwo was said to have been abducted upon his return from Awut-Obolo, a community in Andoni where his team had gone for a mission on the translation of the Holy Bible.

Meanwhile, the King of Ikuru Town in Andoni Local Government Area of the State, Dr. Aaron Miller Ikuru who was kidnapped a day after the UNIPORT lecturer was kidnapped, is yet to be released.

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