Police Spokesman for Bayelsa Command, Asinim Butswat, confirmed the development on Thursday. He said that the command got a report shortly after the incident happened. The police received a distress call on Thursday from the victim’s father, Maxwell Agama.
Community sources said that the armed gunmen zoom off with the victim to an unknown destination after abandoning their original boat.
Family sources said that the kidnappers were yet to establish contact or demand ransom.
It will be recalled that a sister to the minister, Osiyo Agama, was kidnapped in October 2014 in Port Harcourt and later rescued by a combined team of Joint Task Force and Department of State Security Services.
Diezani is known as a powerful minister in President Goodluck Jonathan cabinet.
Recently her donation of N70 million to the Bayelsa chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is causing crisis in the party, that crisis led to the suspension of Col. Sam Inokoba as state chairman of PDP.
Diezani is also at the centre of controversial award of pipeline surveillance contracts to militiamen and ethnic warlords like Asari Dokubo, Gani Adams, Tompolo, etc.
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