.DR JERRY...ARD PRESIDENT..... Kidnapped In Delta State

 
Some gunmen have kidnaped a medical doctor identified as Dr Jerry Isogun, who is also the President, Association of Resident Doctors (ARD DELSUTH Oghara, Delta State.
This was confirmed in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Association, Harrison Adja, on Thursday.

According to the statement, Dr. Isogun was kidnapped on Wednesday night while on his way from his primary place of assignment in Oghara, to Sapele where he lives.
The association also disclosed that an attempt had been made on their colleagues last month, and another one escaped the same kidnappers just about 20minutes before the president was kidnapped.
With the increase in the spate of kidnapping around the Oghara-Sapele-Warri and Oghara-Benin axis, the association has called on the government to come to their aid.
“We are therefore calling on delta state government, security agents, chairmen of the adjoining LGAs, and traditional rulers to beef up security around these areas, to forestall such happening in the future.
“We are also calling on the Federal Government to ensure that these roads are fixed as a matter of urgency to avert future occurrence”.

The president of resident doctors at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, in Oghara, Dr. Jerry Isogun, has been reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
The gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, reportedly abducted the doctors on his way home on Wednesday night November 19, 2019.

The victim was allegedly kidnapped along the Oghara-Mossogar-Sapele axis of the Benin-Sapele highway.
The medical doctor was said to be returning back home from work when the armed-hoodlums waylaid and took him away to unknown location.

Sources at DELSUTH who confirmed the development on Thursday said, ”Dr. Isogun was whisked away in his car by gunmen.
”The medical doctor was returning home when hoodlums suspected to be kidnappers waylaid and took him away. Till now, no one has seen him,” the source said; adding, “kidnapping around the Oghara-Mossogar- apele axis has started again.”
When contacted, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Adeleke Adeyinka, confirmed the report.
‘He has been missing since last night. We are still looking for him, no one has seen him,”Adeyinka said.