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Nigeria Police athlete kidnapped: Gov Dickson Classics
The 3rd edition of the classic begins on Tuesday at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Samson Siasia Sports Stadium with over 500 athletes and officials from different states and wrestling clubs around the country.
NationSport learnt that the athlete was coming with the Nigeria Police wrestling team of Ebonyi State, who were in the same 32 seater coaster bus with Ebonyi State wrestling team and David Robinson Wrestling Club contingent on Sunday when armed men blocked their vehicle and drove Esther and three other girls away, leaving some injured.
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“I am the coach of the Police wrestling team, Ebonyi State team and David Robinson Wrestling Club and we were coming for the Governor Dickson Classics. The incident happened around 5 to 7 pm on Sunday at Obinze junction in Imo,” begins a visibly shaking Robinson.
“We were approaching Orji and we just ran into them. They were operating on two buses when we got there and they ordered us to come down and they will shoot anybody that runs. They were about eight in full police uniforms and carrying different kinds of gun including a machine gun.
“They broke the head one another Police athlete, wound some of our athletes and took four of our girls into the bush. They collected everything from the contingent, money, phones. But thank God Police came on time and were shooting and that was how three of the girls were released.
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