Father of 3 abducted, killed by friend

A 39-year-old father of three, Tartseagh Boshien, has been reportedly
kidnapped and killed by a gang allegedly led by his friend (names
withheld) in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.
Vanguardgathered from a reliable source that the deceased who was a
senior driver with the Benue State Urban Development Board left his
Makurdi home last weekend to attend a wedding ceremony at Udei, in
Guma Local Government Area.
According to our source, "he did not make it to that wedding ceremony
ashe was kidnapped and taken to Adaka, a community located in the
outskirts of Makurdi town.
"His kidnappers waylaid him on his way to Udei and took him at
gunpointto a bush at Adaka village where they forced him to drink a
poisonous substance.
"After they made him drink the substance, he was asked to make a call
tohis wife and family members to bid them farewell. But while making
the call, he passed out, but his abductors, who were led by his
supposed friend, abandoned him in the bush and fled.
"Luckily, a group of farmers discovered him and used his cellphone to
contact his wife, informing her of her husband's condition and
location.
"His family members hurriedly mobilised to the scene from where they
tookhim to the Makurdi Federal Medical Centre, where he managed to
narrate his ordeal and his people immediately alerted the Police.
"And as fate would have it, the leader of the gang trailed him to the
hospital, probably to ensure that their victim actually died.
"On sighting the leader of the gang of kidnappers, though he was still
conscious but could no longer speak, recognized his supposed friend,
madegesticulations to his family members, informing them that the
friend was part of the gang that abducted him.
"The supposed friend was immediately arrested by the Police and is
currently being detained and interrogated by detectives at the state
command headquaters but unfortunately we lost Tartseagh few minutes
later."
Contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Deputy
Suprintendent Daniel Ezeala said the command had commenced full scale
investigations into the matter.