utswat said that the incident occurred at about 12.30 am on Thursday at
Yenaka Community, a coastal settlement in Yenagoa Local Government Area
of Bayelsa state.
Unidentified gunmen in the early hours of Thursday kidnapped Joseph
Agama, the younger brother to Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum Resources,
Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, Police sources say.
Police
Spokesman for Bayelsa Command, Asinim Butswat, confirmed the development
on Thursday. He said that the command got a report shortly after the
incident happened.
According to Butswat, the police received a distress call on Thursday from the victim’s father, Maxwell Agama.
Butswat
said that the incident occurred at about 12.30 am on Thursday at Yenaka
Community, a coastal settlement in Yenagoa Local Government Area of
Bayelsa state.
Community sources said that the armed gunmen off with the victim to an unknown destination after abandoning their original boat.
Family sources said that the kidnappers were yet to establish contact or demand ransom.
It
will be recalled that a sister to the minister, Osiyo Agama, was
kidnapped in October 2014 in Port Harcourt and later rescued by a
combined team of Joint Task Force and Department of State Security
Services.
Diezani who is known as a powerful minister in
President Goodluck Jonathan cabinet and widely believed to be the most
corrupt could afford to pay ransom requested by kidnappers who have now
made a habit of abducting members of her family.
Recently her
donation of N70 million to the Bayelsa chapter of Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) is currently causing crisis in the party that crisis led to
the suspension of Col. Sam Inokoba as state chairman of the party.
Diezani
is also at the centre of controversial award of pipeline surveillance
contracts to militiamen and ethnic warlords across Nigeria.
Last
week ex-militants shortchanged in the process staged a protest led to
the deaths of an ex-militant in the hands of anti-riot policemen in
Yenagoa. In Lagos, a group led by Yoruba militia leader, Gani Adams
staged a protest in Lagos city that resulted in attack on campaign
billboards of oppression figures and harassment of innocent members of
the public, the protest caused panic and confusion. Mr Adams also stated
that his group had just been awarded pipeline surveillance contract.
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