Some labourers hired by three Chinese miners have been reportedly abducted on a mining site located at Akere Village near Ifewara, Osun State.
Before the men were abducted, it was gathered that a policeman attached to the expatriates was killed.
The abduction, it was learnt, occurred following a disagreement between the expatriates and the labourers, said to be mainly northerners, hired to work on the site.
The details of what led to the disagreement was however unknown at the moment.
A resident of Ifewara town, Gboyega Emmanuel, said that the incident occurred late Monday, adding that the expatriates were still being held by their abductors.
He also said a sum of N500m ransom was being demanded by the expatriates’ captors to free their victim.
The Corp Commandant, Amotekun Corps in Osun, Brigadier General Bashir Adewinbi, confirmed the abduction.
Adewinbi further explained that the identities of the abductors were yet to be known, saying security men had already been deployed in the area to secure the release of the expatriates.
He said, “Some Chinese expatriates were kidnapped at a mining site in a village in Ifewara. A police escort was also killed in the process. Men have been deployed in the village to rescue the victims.
“We are also investigating the circumstances behind the incidence with a view to bringing the culprits to justice.”
