Chief Inengite Nitabai a prominent chief of Otuoke community in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State and foster father of former President Goodluck Jonathan has been abducted by gunmen.
Chief Inengite Nitabai, 72 was kidnapped in the early hours of today (Wednesday) at about 3.30am at his residence by seven heavily armed men.
The victim’s residence is located beside a creek, some distance away from a military checkpoint close to the Otuoke bridge, off the Onuebum-Otuoke Road.
Nitabai is described as the head of the compound from where the former president hails from.
It was learnt that the septuagenarian, though cousin to the former president, had been acting as father figure to Jonathan since the death of his (Jonathan’s) biological father.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat, confirmed the abduction.
Butswat said, “On February 17, 2016, at about 0330 hours, seven unknown gunmen abducted Chief Inengite Nitabai in his residence in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area.
“A massive manhunt has been launched by a combined team of Marine Police and Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Command, to rescue the victim and arrest the abductors. Investigation is ongoing.”
It would be recalled that the septuagenarian was also kidnapped some two years ago by four gunmen and spent about three weeks in the kidnappers’ den before he regained freedom.
Upon his freedom in March 2014 when he was 70 years old, Nitabai, a former university lecturer had narrated his ordeal on how his abductors fed him with garri and oil for the gruelling three weeks he was held captive.
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