A lecturer with the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University of Agriculture Makurdi (JOSTUM), Benue State, Dr Ichor Tersagh, has denied abducting the wife of the institution’s chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Mrs Susan Anyagh.

Tersagh who was arrested for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of Mrs Anyagh was released after spending over a month in police custody.

He said the allegations which led to his incarceration were fabricated to silence him for calling on her husband to account for the funds

LEADERSHIP Sunday recalls that the Benue State Police Command had last year arrested Tersagh for allegedly masterminding the abduction of Mrs Anyagh, the wife of JOSTUM chapter Chairman of ASUU, Paul Anyagh.

Mrs Anyagh had in a statement after regaining consciousness narrated that she saw Dr Tersagh close to where she was abducted, and beckoned on him to save her life but the lecturer turned his back away from her. She also claimed that she heard him telling kidnappers on phone to kill her.

The university don, in a press statement he issued on the matter on Friday, said the allegation of being at the scene of the kidnap was false, the handiwork of the victim and a few colleagues in the university to misinform the public and tarnish his hard-earned image.

Tersagh explained that he was away for an engagement in his village at Ikurav Tiev 2 in Katsina-Ala and was not close to Makurdi where the incident was said to have happened throughout that weekend. He regained freedom after his release by the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Abuja after a discreet investigation.

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