Panic Grips Political Appointees Over Kidnap Threat

Culled From Leadership Newspaper
There was panic yesterday among the immediate family of the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson and other political office holders in the State following anonymous text messages threatening to kidnap their family members. The fear was further deepened yesterday following the reported abduction of one of the Sisters to the State Governor in his hometown Toruo-Rua in Sagbama Local Government area  by unidentified gunmen and the deployment of armed policemen around the country home of the governor in Yenagoa and Sagbama. But the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Mr.Daniel Markson-Iworiso, dismissed the reported abduction as a rumor and a deliberate act of falsehood by enemies of the present administration.