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Lawyers kidnapped enroute Call to Bar

By, Joke Thomas

23 passengers have been kidnapped along Okene – Auchi express road, over this weekend.(Friday)

YOUNEWS learnt that majority of the passengers are young lawyers returning back to Edo state, after their Call to Bar Ceremony at Abuja

Already there are calls for the Governor of Edo State, Security Agencies,NBA and all well meaning Nigerians, to step up and save them.

It was learnt that the abduction occurred around Lokoja, Kogi State, on Friday, September 27, 2025, just days after they were called to the bar on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, in Abuja.

Only Barrister Onyesom Peace Udoka, a newly called to bar lawyer, was thought to be the only lawyers among those kidnapped.

a graduate of Ambrose Alli University and law school at Enugu Campus, was taken by her captors, who are now demanding a N20

But sources reported that there are other too, kidnapped alongside her sister while returning home from her Call to Bar ceremony.

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