OAU Professor Of Nuclear Physics Goes Missing In Akwa Ibom

 A Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has been declared missing by members of his family, ten years after he was kidnapped and later released.

Professor James Bolarinwa Olomo, was Tuesday said to have checked into Hotel Farlem situated at 8, Archibong Street, Afaha Ukwu, Eket, in Akwa Ibom State on Thursday, October 17, before his disappearance three days later.

Olomo was in 2003 kidnapped on July 16, but was released on August 16, of the same year after spending 31 days in his abductors’ den.

A statement issued by his family, the Olomo family of Risawe Anlerin Compound in Otan Ayegbaju, Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State titled: ‘Please Save Professor James Bolarinwa Olomo’ and made available to journalists in Osogbo,Tuesday stated that, Professor Olomo travelled to Eket for an engagement as Radiation Safety Adviser (RSA) by an oil company based in Eket before his sudden disappearance and since remained incommunicado as his suspected abductors refused to pick his calls.

The statement signed by six family members of Olomo including a traditional Chief, Risawe of Otan Ayegbaju, High Chief A. O. Olomo, the brother of the victim revealed that the matter had been reported at the Eket Divisional Police headquarters where police detectives have swung into action to unravel the mystery surrounding the academician’s disappearance.