Concern over whereabouts of Shell official, nine months after abduction

Concerns heightened yesterday over the fate of a top official of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Nkpoikana Udoh, who was abducted in Port in April 2011.
National Mirror gathered that the whereabouts of the victim, a senior production engineer with the Anglo-Dutch energy giant, was yet to be ascertained, nine months after he was picked by some gunmen from his residence in Rumuodumaya area of the Garden City.
Family sources recalled that Udoh was heading home in his Lexus Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, on the fateful day when some gunmen ambushed and whisked him away at the entrance into his residence.
Findings showed that Udoh was taken away from the scene in his SUV, which is yet to be recovered.
It was gathered that the gunmen, who initially established contacts with Udoh’s family and colleagues, stopped further communication with them after collecting the ransom demanded before his release.
Reports also indicated that the hoodlums also used the ATM card of the victim to withdraw money from his account many times before they went underground.
Already, members of the family and colleagues of the victim were worried about the failure of security agencies and the Rivers State government to release the oil worker unhurt from captivity.