A former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Friday Makama, and eight others abducted in an Abuja hotel last week have regained their freedom. It was gathered that Makama and some of his kinsmen had gathered at the hotel to hold a community reconciliation meeting slated for Thursday. The gunmen numbering about 15, it was learnt, surrounded the hotel premises and shot sporadically throughout their operations. One of the hotel workers, who pleaded not to be named, told our correspondent on Sunday that all the nine abducted persons have been freed. He said, “The kidnappers have freed all the nine persons abducted from the hotel.

Source: Punch June 27, 2021 23:15 UTC