The police in Bayelsa State have lamented they are having a difficulty in their effort to rescue the abducted mother of former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia.
The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Uche Anozia, said this on Friday while giving an update on the investigation of the kidnap of Mrs Beauty Ogere Siasia.
He told journalists in his office at the police headquarters in Yenagoa that the impediment stemmed from the “changing of locations” by the bandits.
Anozia explained that the police operatives had shortly after her abduction “sourced for useful information that gave investigators a promising lead to some locations within the creeks where the victim may have been kept.”
The CP said, “The police have been trailing the abductors in spite of the fact that they have been changing locations.
“The fundamental aspect of our operations that is of interest to us is the achievement of positive result and not actually occasional dissemination of information concerning efforts being made by the police to achieve such result. This is why we have not been coming on air to update the public.”
The 80-year-old Mrs Siasia has spent 62 days in her abductors’ custody since the armed gunmen invaded her Odoni country home in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and took her away on July 15, 2019.
It was the second time in four years the octogenarian would be whisked away from her sleepy community by a gang of armed men.
She was abducted in November 2015 by a gang of gunmen who released her after spending 12 days in their den.
Three days after the latest incident, the gunmen reportedly contacted the Siasia family and demanded the sum of N70m as ransom to set her free.
But on July 30, they reduced the ransom to N50m despite pleas by Siasia that he was jobless and that they should release his mother on unconditionally.
Efforts to rescue Madam Siasia had remained vague several weeks after the reports of initial contacts between the kidnappers and the Siasia family.