The final year student of Accounting Department at Novena
University, Ogume, in Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State, Nathaniel Edehwosa,
has been found dead two days after he was kidnapped.
It was learnt that the student was abducted by some armed
youths from Obiaruku over a lingering boundary dispute with the neighbouring
Amai community.
Sources told our correspondent that the decomposing body of
the student was discovered on Thursday by a combined team of the private
university and a local vigilance group in Amai who searched for the student
after he was declared missing.
Edehwosa, an indigene of Eku in Ethiope East Council Area of
the state, was waylaid by gun-wielding Obiaruku youths, who reportedly set up
roadblocks on the Obiaruku end of the Kwale/Amai/Obiaruku road where over 10
persons had been killed over a disputed boundary.
A source said the deceased was mistaken for an indigene of
Amai community embroiled in the boundary tussle with Obiaruku and was dragged
out of a vehicle he was travelling in to school.
When contacted, spokesperson for the police in Delta, Andrew
Aniamaka, said he was aware of Edehwosa’s abduction but could not confirm if he
was found dead.
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