Medical doctors in Ondo State on Monday kicked against the growing cases of kidnapping in the state and gave Governor Rotimi Akeredolu a seven-day ultimatum to find a solution to the problem.

The doctors under the auspices of the Nigeria Medical Association, Ondo State chapter, specifically reacted to the recent abduction of three medical officers of the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, by gunmen last week.

Those abducted consists of two nurses and a doctor. They were kidnapped alongside two lecturers of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, at Amurin village on the Akure-Owo Expressway in Owo Local Government Area of the state.

Speaking with journalists in Akure, the state chairman of the NMA, Dr Wale Oke, said his members “now work under intense fear”.