Those who kidnapped Comrade Kehinde Bamigbetan, Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos, South-West Nigeria, have been ordered to release him within hours or face dire consequences.

Engr. Joe Igbokwe, spokesman of the Lagos chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) – the ruling party in the state – issued the order in a message broadcast on his Facebook page this afternoon.

“The kidnappers have just few hours left to release the Council Chairman or face the unimaginable strength of Lagos security outfit,” Igbokwe said.

He asked “these criminals to run away from Lagos because nobody steals or kidnaps in Lagos without being caught and the consequences are better imagined.”

The short statement reads in full: “This is a warning to the criminals who kidnapped Comrade Kehinde Bamigbetan, Chairman Ejigbo LCDA. Lagos is not a safe heaven for kidnappers and they the kidnappers know this very well. I am using this medium to to ask these criminals to run away from Lagos because nobody steals or kidnaps in Lagos without being caught and the consequences are better imagined. The kidnappers have just few hours left to release the Council Chairman or face the unimaginable strength of Lagos security outfit. Be warned!”

News Express reports that Comrade Bamigbetan, a journalist, activist and former spokesman of ACN National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was apprehended by unknown persons a few metres to his Lagos around 11pm Nigerian time. The kidnappers, who took Bamigbetan’s phones and switched them off almost immediately, have yet to make contacts or any demands.