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Security expert knocks hoodlums for kidnapping Rivers based journalist, Rogers

By Brave Dickson

 

A security expert, Godspower Ipianeh has knocked the kidnappers’ of Channels TV correspondent, Joshua Rogers in Rivers State, describing the act as condemnable.

Rogers has been confirmed to have been freed after spending over 24 hours in the custody of his captors.

Ipianeh wondered why hoodlums would think of kidnapping journalists who are informing the public of what happens within the society.

“How much do journalists have that would make kidnappers target them? I condemn the kidnapping of Joshua Rogers in strong terms,” he said.

Rogers who was abducted from his home in Rumuosi within the Obio/Akpor axis of Port Harcourt on Thursday.was reported to have been released unhurt around 10:pm on Friday.

It was gathered that he was seized by gunmen around 9:pm on Thursday as he returned from an official assignment at the Government House, Port Harcourt.

The criminals intercepted him and forcefully took him away in a Channels Television-branded vehicle.

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