News: Bayelsa Speaker’s 90-Year-Old Mother-in-Law Kidnapped

Gun-wielding kidnappers sneaked into a sleepy village around 2 a.m. Friday and seized 90-year-old Ogboro Dark, the mother-in-law of Kombowei Benson, the speaker of the Bayelsa State legislature.
A source said that the gunmen kidnapped the aged woman from her home in Korokorosei, a riverine town in the Southern Ijaw local government area. The source said the armed men shot in the air, frightening other residents of the community. After abducting Mrs. Dark, her kidnappers reportedly sped off in two or three speedboats.
The kidnap of the speaker’s mother-in-law is the second high-profile abduction in Bayelsa, home state of President Goodluck Jonathan. A few weeks ago, SaharaReporters reported the abduction of five Dutch nationals along the waterways of the state. The Dutch victims were subsequently freed under controversial circumstances that fingered the security aides of Governor Seriake Dickson in a bribery scandal with police authorities.
The Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Hilary Opara, confirmed the kidnap of Mrs. Dark, assuring that the police were taking steps to rescue the elderly woman from her kidnappers.
Mr. Opara described the action of the kidnappers as “wicked.”
A source said the Bayelsa State police command was following a lead that the aged woman’s abductors are a group of armed gangsters who terrorize innocent people along the coast of Southern Ijaw local government area.