Help Secure My Husband’s Release, Wife Of ‘Abducted’ Itsekiri Youth Leader Cries Out

…he was not kidnapped but arrested, says Delta CP

Mrs. Ete Esu, wife of an Itsekiri Youth leader, Lucky Esu who was allegedly abducted on Wednesday night, has raised alarm, saying her husband was kidnapped on gunpoint at their house in Idimijakpa, Okere, Warri, 12 midnight.

The victim was reportedly seized from his home hours after he made a video which went viral about the crisis rocking Okere community youth body.

There has been factional youth crisis in Okere Community and Lucky Esu, weekend made a viral video, warning the leadership of Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, to stay off Okere Community youth affairs.

Lucky Esu

He had in the viral video claimed that people of Okere Community are descendants of Ekpenede, not Ginuwa 1 Ruling House of Warri Kingdom.

It was not clear if his purported ‘abduction’ have any link to the crisis rocking the youth body but some powerful forces in Itsekiri land were said not to be comfortable with the video.

Mrs. Esu, had at 6:pm on Wednesday August 16, raised the alarm that her husband was kidnapped from their home, a night after he made the viral video.

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She said that even though the kidnap has been reported to the Police at ‘ A’ Division in Warri and search party launched by youths in Okere, no contact has been made by the abductors, who she alleged pointed gun at their child, in the bid to get her husband.

When contacted, the Delta State Police Commissioner, Wale Abass, in a telephone conversation, said that it was not true that the youth leader was kidnapped as being insinuated, saying that he was arrested and currently undergoing interrogation.

He said that he would be release when police are though with interrogating him.

“I think because of the time frame, that’s why they were insinuating that the boy was kidnapped. I think they have been informed that the boy was arrested yesterday. He was arrested and not kidnapped. He is with the police, I am not in the office now but I have been heard about it. So he is undergoing interrogation, after interrogation they will release him”, the commissioner of police said.