A retired school principal, Mrs. Clementina Bakpa, was Friday abducted by unknown gunmen at Ovwian in Udu council area of Delta State on her way to church in company of her husband, Mr. Emma Bakpa, an engineer.

Newsmen gathered that they were on their way to morning mass at the Catholic Church, Ovwian when the incident occurred at about 6 am and driven off in a speed boat to unknown destination.

Mrs. Bakpa, a former principal of Dom Domingo College, Warri and Delta State University Demonstration School, Abraka is a mother of six children and proprietor of Holy Family School, Airport Road, Warri.

No ransom has be demanded by her abductors who has no access to contact her family members as she was without her GSM handset at the time she was kidnapped.

No officer of the Owvian police station was prepared to comment on the incident although sources revealed that investigation are in top gear to track the hoodlums.

As at the time of abduction, Mrs. Bakpa was said to be without her telephone set.