A former Secretary to the Government of Enugu State Dr Dan Shere and some students were abducted by kidnappers, General Officer Commanding, 82 Division, of the Nigerian Army, Maj. Gen. Umar Musa, has said.
Generla Musa disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu on Thursday when he and other heads of security agencies accompanied Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on “a strategic assessment of the area, including the hideouts of kidnappers, with a view to making the road safe.
On the governor’s entourage were the Garrison Commander, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Brig. Gen. M.K Ibrahim; the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani and the Director of Department of State Services, H.M Daluwa.
Gen. Musa, who spoke on behalf of the other heads of security agencies in the state, n assured the public that the combined team of the security agencies were taking further steps into the bush to apprehend the perpetrators, rescue the victims and end the menace along the road.
Already, the police in the state has launched a manhunt for the kidnappers of students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and other abducted passengers.
Spokesperson for the police command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, in a statement on Thursday, said it policemen had been deployed to the location with a view to rescuing the victims and arresting the perpetrators.
The statement said the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, had on receipt of the report of the attack on October 23, 2022, ordered the deployment of operational and intelligence resources of the command “to ensure adequate security on the said road, rescue unascertained number of persons allegedly abducted and arrest the hoodlums.”
Several students and passengers travelling to Nsukka on Sunday were abducted along Nike-Opi-Nsukka Road.
The students were returning to campus following the resumption of academic activities after the eight months’ industrial action embarked on by lecturers in public universities across the country.
A report said the kidnappers had demanded N300m ransom from their parents.
