By Chinagorom Ugwu
Gunmen have kidnapped a professor from the University of Nigeria in the country’s southeast.
Oguejiofor Ujam, the dean of the School of General Studies at the university, was kidnapped on Sunday evening along Opi-Nsukka-Ugwogo-Nike Road.
Sources told Premium Times that he was kidnapped together with an unidentified man.
A source close to the family of the man said the kidnappers had contacted them for ransom.
“They were kidnapped while returning to Nsukka from Enugu metropolis,” the source said.
When Premium Times contacted him on Tuesday morning, the university’s spokesperson, Okwun Omeaku, refused to deny or confirm the incident.
He said “blowing up” the kidnap in the media could jeopardise the professor’s chances of being released.
“Matters relating to kidnap and all that are being handled by the state security, not us,” he said.
Kidnap-for-ransom cases in Enugu have increased in recent times, with civil servants, business owners, politicians, and even students the targets of such attacks in the area.
The latest incident occurred hours after gunmen kidnapped an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps along the same road.