Ekiti News reports that a former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Ekiti State University Ado-Ekiti, (EKSU), Prof. Femi Olaofe has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen and taken away to an undisclosed location.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Olaofe was a Professor of Industrial Chemistry before his retirement from EKSU.
In an interview with newsmen on Friday, the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Mr Adeniran Akinwale, confirmed the abduction and promised to arrest the perpetrators of the crime.
The CP said, “The truth is that the Prof was actually kidnapped, quietly from his house.
”The professor lives alone with only the guard. Quietly, because it was one small girl that saw the vehicle that moved out from the gate with speed that alerted people on the day of the incident, that should be in the night.
”They moved out, and before police would get wind of it, they had gone.
“We have started working on it. The man has no wife at present because his wife died. His children are not here. We are tracking them.
”We have recovered the vehicle of the professor which they used to whisk him away from his house.
“We recovered it on Afao road in the night. We are trailing the professor with the culprits.
”By the special grace of God, we are going to rescue the man unhurt”