Around six gunmen in a speedboat kidnapped a foreign construction worker from a building site on the edge of a lagoon in Nigeria’s main commercial city of Lagos late on Monday, security sources said on Tuesday.


One of the sources said the attackers were dressed as policemen and had tried to kidnap two expatriates.

“Some shots were fired and two men were taken away in a boat. One managed to escape. It is believed the person taken is Lebanese,” the source said.

A police spokesman in Lagos said he was making checks but could not immediately confirm the abduction.

The sources said the kidnapped man was working at a bank construction site on the water’s edge on Victoria Island, one of the most expensive and exclusive areas of Lagos.

Such kidnappings by gunmen in speedboats are common in the creeks of the Niger Delta, home to Africa’s biggest oil and gas industry, but are rare in Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city of around 14 million people, spread over a series of lagoons.

Many international oil companies and other firms have moved expatriate staff to Lagos from the Niger Delta in recent years because of the deteriorating security situation there.

Ok, this is ridiculous!!, Not funny at all. Someone needs to do something about these hooligans. Do they actually think Lagos is the Niger-Delta creek? I see another civil war coming if this is not taken care of fast.