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Traffic on the busy Benin-Lagos Highway was on standstill for many hours yesterday July 29, when nurses from the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) protested the abduction of two of their colleagues by unknown gunmen.
Another colleague had been kidnapped and later released after an undisclosed ransom was paid. About four nurses have been kidnapped in one month.
The abducted nurses, identified as Osemielu Lydia and Oviosu Bose, both Nursing officers grade II and were kidnapped yesterday in a private car along the Isihor axis of the Benin Lagos road, Egor Local government council, shortly after closing from work.
The protesting nurses carried various placards with inscriptions like, “Nurses are public servants, enough of the kidnapping”, “UBTH Nurses say no to kidnapping” and “Release our nurses!”
Taking over major streets and federal highways in the state capital, they disrupted vehicular and pedestrian movements on the busy express road. The protesting nurses who abandoned their duty posts also stopped over at the palace of His Royal Highness, Crown Prince (Amb) Eheneden Erediauwa, Edaiken N’ Uselu, and the Edo state House of Assembly Premises (EDHA) to register their displeasure over the incessant kidnap of nurses in the state.
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