Yet to be identified gunmen kidnapped Labour Party senatorial candidate for Ebonyi State Zone, Linus Okorie, on Sunday.
Reports say Okorie who Arrived Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, from Abuja on Saturday, was scheduled to meet with his supporters on Sunday in the Onicha Local Government Area of the state.
The Labour Party Senatorial flagbearer was abducted while driving out of his Abakaliki home on Sunday.
Reacting to the development, the Director of Linus’ Caring Heart Foundation, Dr. David Ogbonna in a statement said, “Hon. Linus Abah Okorie was kidnapped early this morning on his way to his house in Abakaliki by gunmen known to be men of the Ebubeagu Security outfit allegedly sent by the Onicha Local Government Chairman.
“The available information confirms that he’d been severely tortured to a near-death situation, made naked, and pictures of him taken by his abductors.
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“The information available at this moment confirms that their end-point motive is to torture him to death and dump his body at Ebonyi river.
“His phones are currently with the team commander of his abductors.
“A professional tracking done on his lines reviewed Okoja Road, near Police Headquarters, as his current location. The second line showed Ebunwana, Edda.
“We’re believing that his abductors may have kept his half-dead body at old Government house where the previous actions of the indicted militia group usually take place.”
Okorie is also a former House of Representatives member from Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Federal Constituency, Ebonyi State,
Source: Punch
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