Daredevil sea pirates have again kidnapped two females and three male passengers from a passenger speedboat in the early hours of Tuesday, August 10, 2021, along the Bonny River, very close to the Federal Ocean Terminal located in Onne, Rivers State.

This is coming barely one month after five members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) were kidnapped alongside three other passengers along the same waters.

Disclosing this to newsmen in Bonny, Rivers State, the Officer-in-Charge of the Marine Police in Bonny, Solomon Adeniyi, a Superintendent of Police, disclosed that five people were kidnapped after Onne in a 10 passenger speedboat around 07:30hours, on Tuesday morning.

He further informed that the victims were “two females and three males,” clarifying that “based on jurisdiction; the incident has been reported to the Marine Police in Port Harcourt by the boat driver, while we assist them to rescue the victims.”

An official of the Bonny Youth Federation (BYF), who preferred not to have his name in print stated that “the attacked speedboat was a one-outboard-engine-powered speedboat that carried 10 passengers who were on their way from Bonny to Port Harcourt this morning.”

He narrated that five of the passengers were abducted and the other passengers were allowed to continue the journey to Port Harcourt, adding that the abductees were yet to be identified and their destination yet unknown.

Recall that in July of 2021, the eight kidnapped Nigerian boat passengers which included five members of MWUN were rescued following an intervention by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).

The Director-General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, had broken the news after a phone conversation with the President-General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, (MWUN), Comrade Adewale Adeyanju.

(Nigerian Tribune)

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