The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, on Thursday said that his family is yet to receive any contact or information pertaining to his abducted wife, Francisca.
Okhiria made this disclosure at his NRC Headquarters, Ebute-Metta Junction, Lagos home.
He said: “No member of the family has been contacted. We have yet to receive any information from the abductors of my wife,” the managing director lamented.
Okhiria pleaded with the abductors to please spare his wife.
He said his children and other family members have been calling to inquire whether there has been any development or whether he has been contacted.
He disclosed that the Inspector General of Police Mr Idris Adamu and other top security chiefs have also been in touch, and are on top of the situation.
Okhiria who appeared very calm on Thursday afternoon, said the family are praying for the safe return of his wife.
He said, it was only recently that she even permitted him to hire for her a driver, adding that she loves to drive herself anytime she is at home.
According to him; “rather than having a driver, my wife prefers to be in company of her friends. She was in company of two of her friends when the incident happened.”
Suspected gunmen on Wednesday abducted Mrs Okhiria, in Oredo, Benin, Edo State.
It was learnt that the gunmen who were in police uniform trailed her from the airport and kidnapped her on the way to her house.
When contacted, the state’s Police spokesperson, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, who had confirmed the incident, added that an Army Sergeant was also shot.
DSP Nwabuzor said the woman was kidnapped at Irhirhi along NNPC filling station in Oredo Local Government Area.
Top management staff of the NRC, were seen in the house on Wednesday, sympathizing with the Managing Director whom they described as a peace loving and friendly boss.