A former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Friday Makama and eight others abducted in an Abuja hotel, last week, have regained their freedom.
The former lawmaker and others were abducted at Hilltop International Premium Hotel at Tunga-Maje in Gwagwalada Area of the Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday night.
It was gathered that Makama and some of his kinsmen had gathered at the hotel to hold a community reconciliation meeting slated for Thursday.
The gunmen numbering about 15, it was learnt, surrounded the hotel premises and shot sporadically throughout their operations.
Manager of the hotel, Adejoh Maquile, had told newsmen that he would have been killed had he not dodged one of the shots aimed at him.
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One of the hotel workers, who pleaded not to be named, told our correspondent on Sunday that all the nine abducted persons have been freed.
He, however, did not disclose if ransom was paid or not.
He said, “The kidnappers have freed all the nine persons abducted from the hotel. They freed them early on Sunday.
