The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and front-line politician Chief Samuel Oluyemisi Falae was on Monday abducted in his farmland by gun wielding men numbering about 20.
He was abducted at about 1pm and by 3.20pm, the abductors demanded for N100m as ransom before the septuagenarian could be freed from their captivity. The farmland is about 15 kilometers to his residence along Oba-Ile road, Akure, the state capital.
The septuagenarian who turned 77 yesterday we learnt has been having issues with Fulani herdsmen who graze on his farmland. Over 50 policemen have been deployed to the village and its environ to search for him just as the state governor Dr Olusegun Mimiko has summoned an emergency state Security Council meeting on the matter.
