Five persons, including two women, were on Tuesday kidnapped on the Bonny coastal waters in Rivers State.
The incident it was learnt happened near the Federal Ocean Terminal in the Onne axis of the state.
They were abducted in a ten seater capacity passenger speed boat between 7.30 and 8am on Tuesday, according to the report. The other passengers were allowed to go.
When contacted, the State Police Public Relation Officer, Nnmadi Omoni, said he was yet to be briefed but would contact the officer-in-charge of marine police and revert.
A few weeks after five members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria who were travelling in a passenger boat to Port Harcourt were also abducted along the Kula-Abonnema waterway in the same pattern.
The maritime workers were released about four days later after the national leadership threatened to shut down activities in the waterways.
