Gunmen have kidnapped a Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH), Yola.

Thelagostimes gathered that Prof Felix Ilesanmi was abducted on Thursday night from his residence at the Staff Quarters of the university in Girei, headquarters of Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
The professor is the chaplain of Trinity Chapel, a church located on the main campus of the university.

A witness, Na’omi Baba, disclosed that the gunmen seized the don at the university’s main campus and whisked him away.

Confirming the incident, police spokesperson in the state, Sulaiman Nguroje, said the police were on the trail of the kidnappers.

“We received a distress call around midnight on Thursday that the professor was kidnapped right inside the professor’s quarters in the university.

“We immediately deployed our intelligence unit to the area and are working to ensure that the culprits are arrested and the victim rescued,” Mr Nguroje said.

It was gathered that early last month, a professor of Soil Science in the university, Adamu Zata, was kidnapped.

It was the second time Zata was being kidnapped having been abducted in October 2018.