21Jan 2022
Four students from the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Port Harcourt, kidnapped on Saturday, have been rescued by police in Rivers State.
Sam Kpenu, the university spokesman, in a statement issued Wednesday in Port Harcourt, confirmed that the students have been rescued.
According to him, the students, two Ph.D. and two university students, were kidnapped while heading to the Orashi River in the state.
He gave the names of the four students as Gbaa Nenubari, Asumbo Elizabeth, Eze Chimezie, and Onosigho Augustine.
“They were on their way to the Orashi River to take vegetation samples for their senior project and postgraduate research papers when they were abducted,” he said.
Kpenu said the university’s vice-chancellor, Owunari Georgewill, received the rescued students and praised the institution’s director of security and security agencies for their prompt intervention.
“We are happy that the students have returned unharmed and are now reunited with their families and friends.
“We sympathize with them for what they went through at the hands of their kidnappers,” Mr. Georgewill said.
With insecurity spreading in different parts of Nigeria, kidnapping for ransom has become commonplace in the country.
Obansa Joseph, an economics professor at the University of Abuja, was abducted along with two of his sons and others in November by armed men who broke into the university’s staff quarters
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