Gunmen have abducted a father who accompanied his son to a centre of the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The man was kidnapped in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo state, around 7am on the Benin-Lagos Express road axis of Okada, it was learned.
The kidnappers left the son alone.
Spokesperson of Edo police command, Bello Kontongs, said “They alerted the police and we mobilized to the scene and took the boy to write the examination at the designated centre,” he said.
Kotongs revealed that the police had begun search for the man to rescue the victim unhurt.
