Hosea Azi, the newly appointed transition
committee chairman of Jos East local government area of Plateau state,
has been reportedly kidnapped and murdered.Speaking with Premium Times, family sources said that Azi was kidnapped on Friday, December 11, along Miango road, in Kufang, near former NYSC Secretariat in Jos South local government area of the state.
According to the sources, the politician died alongside four of the six abductors after the car in which they were driving him away got involved in an accident in Keffi, Nasarawa state.
However, the police have not yet confirmed the incident.
When contacted, Abuh Emmanuel, the state police public relations officer, requested more time to gather information on the matter.
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Meanwhile, the family sources said that two of the suspects, who survived in the accident, confessed to the crime while receiving treatment in an unnamed hospital in Keffi.
It would be recalled that the late Hosea Azi was appointed the transition committee chairman of Jos East on Thursday, following the removal of his predecessor, Sanda Agwom.
Earlier this week, Ifiok Umanah, the elder brother to Akwa Ibom state commissioner for information, Aniekan Umanah was kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
According to eyewitnesses, Umanah’s abductors shot sporadically into the air to scare away passersby before they took him away.
