Unknown gunmen have abducted Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (retd.), in Ajah area of Lagos State.
Smith is a cousin to a former Inspector-General of Police and current Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Musiliu Smith.
The Punch reports that the retired military officer, who is the Chairman of Double Wealth Ventures Limited, a dredging and engineering firm, was supervising work on a site in the Ajah area of Lagos State on Monday, when the masked gunmen invaded the place and shot sporadically.
The gunmen were said to have whisked Smith away in a waiting speedboat.
According to an SOS voice note shared by Smith’s driver, Corporal Odiji, the retired AVM engaged in a struggle with the gunmen before he was subdued.
“This is an emergency. I am Corporal Odiji attached to Air Vice Marshal Smith. They just abducted him from the site where we were working. Some gunmen who were wearing masks just came and snatched my boss now. They shot everywhere. I was near where I was fixing my boss’ vehicle.
“As I was coming, I saw them leaving in a boat but I wasn’t armed, so I just ran to the site and I saw his glasses and where he struggled with them. Please pass this information. It is an emergency, ” Odiji said in the voice note.
