By Festus Ahon

ASABA— DELTA State chapter of Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, and the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, yesterday, staged a peaceful protest against the kidnap of one of their colleagues, Dr. Obiabo Yahaya.

The doctors, who marched to the state Government House in Asaba in white attires, decried the kidnap of their colleague, lamenting that they have become endangered species in the hands of kidnappers following the kidnap of Dr. Yahaya, a Neurologist, who was abducted on December 29, 2015.

In its protest letter read by MDCAN Vice Chairman, Dr. Ejiroghene Umuerri, the association urged the state government and security agents to ensure the release of their colleague within the next 24 hours.

The letter which read in part, said: “It is with a heavy heart that we make this submission that kidnapping in Delta State and indeed Nigeria has become a very lucrative business with huge financial returns and little risk as the kidnappers are hardly apprehended while the victims’ families are left with no option than to pay ransom in order to secure the safe release of their loved ones.

“The kidnappers collect their ransom and move to the next victim certain that they would not be caught and the ransom demanded must be paid.”