{"id":29796,"date":"2014-08-04T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=29796"},"modified":"2014-08-04T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:01:19","slug":"gunmen-abduct-bayelsa-speakers-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/gunmen-abduct-bayelsa-speakers-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen abduct Bayelsa Speaker\u2019s brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #262626;\">Gunmen in the early hours of Monday abducted Mr Iniokpoemi Benson, a younger brother to the Speaker of Bayelsa House of Assembly, Mr Kombowei Benson.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">Mr Hilary Okpara, Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa, who confirmed the incident, said the victim was abducted at about 3 a.m. at his residence in Korokorosei village in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">Okpara told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview in Yenagoa that the police special anti-kidnap squad was on the trail of the kidnappers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">\u201cWe have got information on the incident, the DPO in the area and the Assistant Commissioner of Police have briefed me and the good thing is that we have known the direction the hoodlums are heading to so we shall round them up,\u201d Okpara said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">The commissioner assured that the gunmen would be apprehended and the victim rescued.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">NAN had gathered that Benson was the immediate past chairman of the community\u2019s development committee.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">The commissioner also commented on the fate of 90-year-old Madam Florentina Paulker, mother of Sen. Emmanuel Paulker representing Bayelsa Central, who was abducted in July.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">\u201cWe have made some progress on that incident, we arrested one of them within hours and the next day we arrested three more subjects who are helping us and we are still making more arrests.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">\u201cIt is a syndicate from what we have found out, we have cut off the communication link between the suspects in our custody and those holding the woman, so we are hoping that soon we shall free her,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">Paulker, who was abducted on July 30 in Opollo area of Yenagoa, had been kidnapped in 2010, but was freed after eight days in captivity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626;\">The security agents at the time killed one of the kidnappers in a shoot-out. 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