Enugu Commissioner Of Police intensifies search as gunmen abduct Rivers United coach Stanley Eguma was  kidnapped by gunmen in Enugu on his way from Gombe State where his team lost to Adamawa United on Sunday.

The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu, psc has ordered that no stone should be left unturned in the already launched full-scale investigation  to rescue one Stanley Eguma (m), Head Coach of Rivers United Football Club of Port-Harcourt, and the arrest of the yet-to-be identifed gunmen, alleged to have abducted him on 15/06/2021 at about 1600hrs, along Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway.

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The order was sequel to a complaint made at Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Command same date of the incident at about 1705hrs, by two other persons traveling with the victim, who alleged that the unidentifed gunmen, operating in a white-coloured Hilux Van, trailed and forced the black-coloured Hilux Van conveying them from Gombe State to Port-Harcourt, to stop. They further alleged that the assailants pushed the two of them out and made away with vehicle, and in the process abducted the victim to an unknown destination.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner has enjoined members of the public with useful information that will assist the Command in the ongoing investigation, to endeavour to provide.

The source who is close to the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) team confirmed the development on Wednesday saying.

“Since the players and other staff members left Enugu yesterday, we didn’t hear from them. Then the management got the news that Eguma had been kidnapped,” the source noted.

“The players and staff members slept in Enugu and he didn’t show up the following morning. They thought he slept in Makurdi” he said.