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VIDEO: Anambra Residents Raise Alarm Over Kidnapping Of Two Motorists At Army Checkpoint

VICTIMS
October 17, 2022

The outcry followed the abduction of two yet-to-be-identified motorists, who were taken by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Saturday morning at an army checkpoint at Ring Road, Nkwelle.

Residents of Nkwelle-Ezunaka community in the Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State have raised the alarm over persisting kidnapping along Nibo/Isiagu Road despite the presence of an army checkpoint in the area.

 

The outcry followed the abduction of two yet-to-be-identified motorists, who were taken by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Saturday morning at an army checkpoint at Ring Road, Nkwelle.

 

An eyewitness in a video shared by a Facebook user, Oluwa Nation at 8:41 am on Saturday said the unknown victims’ car engines were shattered with bullets before they were taken away to an unknown destination.

 

Describing the incident and lamenting their ordeals in the hands of criminal elements in the area, the eyewitness who did not mention his name in the video, said, “This is happening at Ring Road at Nkwelle along Nibo/Isiagu Road at the army checkpoint. The owners of these cars were kidnapped. We don’t know the owners of the cars. Two persons were kidnapped here.

 

“If the government does not know what to do on this road… when there was no checkpoint here, there were kidnapping incidents but we were guarding ourselves. This thing has become too much. Most of these things are done by these people who stay here (allegedly the soldiers who stay at the checkpoint).”

 

Pointing at bullet holes on the bonnet of the cars, the eyewitness said, “They shattered the engines of the cars with bullets. Anyone who knows the owners of these cars should just call their family members to inform them that they have been kidnapped.

 

“Anyone who knows the government agents (the soldiers) should tell them that we would start guarding ourselves because the problem has become too much. Before you know it, we will start seeing dead bodies here. They will no longer be kidnapping people but start killing people and dumping them here.

 

“(Governor Charles) Soludo who said that he is working and that he is a solution is not doing anything here. He is only taxing and billing people. I don’t know if he only came to bill people. He taxes old men and women, poor people who are dying of hunger, you want them to be paying tax but the main thing you are supposed to do since you said you are the solution, you did not do. Solution my foot!

 

“People should stop following this Ring Road because the soldiers no longer stay here.”

 

Details of the number plate of one of the cars, a Peugeot 406, show ‘Anambra State Legislature 11 A-AN June 2007-June 2011’ while the second car which is a Toyota Camry has its number plate reading LSR-409GU.

 

When contacted by SaharaReporters, the Police Public Relations Officer of the state police command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said, “I don’t have such information before me. I have not received such a report.”

 

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