BREAKING NEWS: Corps members, driver, and other passengers kidn@pped while travelling today An unspecified number of travellers have been kidn@pped on Nigeria's independence day. According to reports, at least 2 commercial buses were affected. The passengers and drivers were reportedly taken away by armed kidnappers. According to an eyewitness... report, the incident happened along the Onitsha–Owerri Road in Imo State. Other vehicles travelling along the road were also reportedly affected, with passengers in some of the vehicles allegedly taken away by the kidnappers. The exact number of people kidn@pped is not yet clear. A video shared online shows loved ones stating that some of those kidnapped are corps members who left with Uko Akwa Ibom Motors from Ibadan to travel to the places they were posted to in various states in the south-east and south-south zones. The passengers boarded a bus at Samonda, Ibadan, with the aim of travelling to orientation camps in Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Imo, and Abia Some distraught family members visited the park where their loved ones took off from and recorded a video informing family members of other travellers who left from the same park of what has happened. "They carried everybody, including the driver," a passenger who boarded a bus that managed to escape the incident said as he filmed the commercial bus abandoned by the roadside after the passengers and drivers had been abducted. One woman narrated how her child left the park in Ibadan to travel to orientation camp in the east. She said that they received a message from her child in their family's WhatsApp group earlier this morning, October 1st. According to the mother, her child typed "kidn@pper" and that was the last they heard. She said they have been calling her child's number but it has remained unreachable.show more

This is the independence they promise us💔💔

If we were serious citizens, we would boycott this NYSC program nationwide until this kidnapping issue is resolved, but no, prospective corps members still travel far distances with the mentality of "it can't be me" until it also happens to them. Tomorrow, another set will travel

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has failed them

Scrap the NYSC now!

Nysc is shit 💩 if the government can not protect us. It needs to be scrapped

On independent day, bandits are kidnapping people and our president is saying the country is working. Policemen are threatening to arrest innocent citizens who want to make their displeasures known through protest.

The Lord shall deliver them from the Kiddnapers. No weapon fashioned those children shall prosper.

What happened to all the checkpoints in that road shinning their eyes for cars without tinted permit to extort?

Nigeria and playing politics with citizens lol 😂 it's clear after several days of being quiet them boom today they started lol some kachalla going down soon as those idiots for oyo bush

Wow

Pls let scrap this NYSC because it’s useless to Nigerian youths

This is disheartening. I hope the @ImoPoliceNG and the Imo state government led by @Hope_Uzodimma1 is aware of this ??? Please take quick actions to rescue the victims especially the NYSC PCM's

Happy independence Nigeria

Omo

What a way to celebrate it may God help them all

@desolvay180052 This is the terrible state of the country & the incompetent president says he must contest again.

Hmmm a country of a particular concern

This is absolutely heartbreaking 💔 Imagine leaving Ibadan to report for NYSC and ending up in the hands of kidnappers. The families must be going through hell right now. I sincerely hope every single person abducted is found and brought home safely. 💔🙏

Nigeria ooooooo

Hope and Soludo are twerkijng d’or Tinubu instead of tightening their security

And some foolish fools thinks their useless comments on Otedola’s post will solve the problem

Jesus!!! No where is safe again💔🤦‍♂️

God please God please

Omoh God help Nigeria

There are 230 checkpoints in that axis Is useless they are the one responsible for the kidnapping

@sirvvage

To serve nigeria is not by force

So so gutted. What sort of useless country is this? 🤦‍♂️

Why do we still have the useless scheme called @officialnyscng ? What are the benefits of the scheme ? These young Nigerians either get kidnapped or involved in accidents enroute their destination. Those in charge of 🇳🇬 today are evil & satanic @officialABAT

When FG deploys military personnels to the East, those born retards will convulse that FG is trying to militarize their region Now let them deal with it The problems of the East should remain in the East

it now the norms in Nigeria 💔 i can't even imagine just entering a vehicle and this happens. I really hope they’re found safe and brought back home

End Nigeria....let everyone be in control of their territories Even if it is 10 countries that will come out of Nigeria, so be it

On Independence day, the irony. Sad

When will this end