Criminals are on the prowl in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, as one person was, on Wednesday, October 6, killed at Alaojii in Umuezeala Council headquarters of the area. His name was given simply as Chigozie.
As if that was not enough, abductors, over the weekend, kidnapped three persons: two men and a woman at different locations in the area.
The two men whose real names are yet to be known were abducted at Orieagu and Umualumaku respectively. One of them whose name was given simply as ‘Agbishi’ was said to have been kidnapped while he was coming out from a barbing saloon, somewhere at Umunumo road at Orieagu, whereas the second person, a man, was kidnapped around Eberelinks Filling Station, at Umualumaku.
The third person, a woman, was abducted at ‘Ama-Iwuji, at Aba-Branch on the road by the council headquarters parameter fencing.
The woman was said to be a wife of a bishop, and was on their way to the 14th Diocesan Mother’s Union Conference holding at Christ Anglican Church, Umunakanu-Ama.
She was said to have been abducted alongside her driver both of who were the only occupants of their vehicle.
An Eye witness told Daily Nigerian Horn that the chauffeur-driven woman was double-crossed in her car at the junction that transverses between Ama-Iwuji and Mbaise road as her driver was on the verge of negotiating the bend towards Aba Branch/Isiala Mbano end of the town.
The men numbering about five were said to be coming from the Orieagu end of the road, fired two gunshots which forced their victims’ vehicle to a halt, dragged the driver out into one of their two vehicles after beating him up; with the woman still in her car, zoomed off with their victims.
When Saturday Nigerian Horn visited the Christ Anglican Church, Umunakanu, the supposed destination of the abducted woman, the reverend gentlemen there were confused as who the possible woman in question might be.
When Saturday Nigerian Horn called on the Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), CSP Michael Abattam, to confirm the stories, he did not pick his phone call.
NIGERIAN HORN
