
Yeterday tuesday,seven doctors in Ekiti state chapter of Nigerian Medical Association {NMA} have received threats of kidnap from unknown gunmen.This is coming barely one week after the former Chief Medical Director of Ekiti state University Teaching Hospital,Dr Patrick Adegun and a nurse with the Federal Teaching Hospital,in Ido Ekiti,Mrs Margaret Aladenika,were kidnapped.Adegun was kidnapped along side his wife Kikelomo,a few metres to the gate of their house located on Goshen Avenue,Federal Housing in Ado Ekiti metropolis.The chairman of NMA in Ekiti state,Dr John Akinbote,told news men in Ado Ekiti that the seven doctors received text messages from kidnappers saying they could be picked up anytime.Members of the Academy staff union of universities,Akure zone,had also called for overhauling of the security chiefs in the state.They hinged the call on poor professional handling of the kidnap of a member of the association,Dr Femi Omisore of the Oafemi Awolowo university in Ekiti state last week.Omisore was kidnapped on May 6,while his driver Saheed was shot in the head and his vehicle set ablaze for stressing the captors while being chased.NMA and ASUU said yesterday tuesday that the police and the state security service had not been handling the matter in most professional way.Zonal Cordinator of ASUU Akure,Dr Alex Odiyia,appealed to Governor Ayodele Fayose to get rid of hoodlums in the state.
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