ashadestiney at 17-08-2012 10:13 PM (11 years ago)
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938 persons kidnapped in 8 months in South East – CD
On August 17, 2012 · In News
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Onitsha (Anambra) – No fewer than 938 prominent sons and daughters of the South East zone are alleged to have been kidnapped between January 2008 and August 2012, a civil society group, Campaign for Democracy (CD), has said.
Police authorities, however, disagreed with the figures, saying it was the figment of the imagination of the group that released the figures.
In a statement signed by Mr Uzor Uzor and Dr Jerry Chukwuokolo, the CD chairman and secretary respectively in the South East, said the kidnapped persons paid ransoms said to be valued at about N1.2 billion during the period.
The statement also said that kidnappers collected substantial amounts from their victims ranging from N5 million to N30 million per individual.
“Anambra State has the highest incidence of kidnapping of 273 persons, especially within the commercial axis of Onitsha and Nnewi. And it is happening at a constant rate for over five years now.
“Imo State with the current up-surge in kidnapping incidence has recorded 265 cases, while its residence is living in heightened fear.
“Abia follows behind with 215 persons so far; although the incidences of kidnapping had continued to reduce for some months now after the death of a notorious kidnapper called Osisikankwu.
“Enugu has recorded 95 cases in the past five years. However, the state has recorded the highest in abduction of government officials.
“Ebonyi is the least of all the five states in the South-east. It has recorded 90 cases so far officially. However, apart from kidnapping the state is laden with communal crisis,’’ it said.
The statement maintained that there was a need to take decisive actions to checkmate the spate of kidnapping in the zone.
“One practical way of doing it is the demolition of established structures or buildings used by kidnappers to advance their operations.
“The governors in the zone must work in synergy to address the issue of security and draft laws that would stiffen the penalties for kidnapping and other related offences,’’ the CD said.
The group gave the South-east governors’ forum till the end of October 2012 to address the up-surge in kidnapping and restore the confidence of foreign investors to the zone.
Contacted, the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, described CD’s figures as a figment of their imagination.
He said that the police was the statutory authority to issue the number of persons kidnapped in an area.
He, however, raised some questions over the CD’s statement: “What is the source of their information? What is the methodology of obtaining the figures? Do the CD work with the kidnappers or did the kidnappers render account to them?’’
“Not until they verify from the police, the figures and the amount they gave make no sense,’’ Mba said. (NAN)
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ashadestiney at 17-08-2012 10:16 PM (11 years ago) (f)
igbo kwennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn;D
some of the comments.............
by Ivy......
When did the Igbos start hating themselves so much that they run around kidnapping and killing fellow Igbos. I always thought they loved each other the way they would stick up for one another regardless. What has happened to the Igbo man? My friend just lost her father. The man was kidnapped on a visit to his home town in Anambra, killed and dumped by the roadside like a piece of rag even after the payment of a one million Naira ransome. Why? This is no faulty generalisation. The rate of kidnapping and it's attendant evils are far more copious in Igbo land than in any other part of the country. The Igbos have to stop burying their heads in the sand whilst pretending that it is 'a nation wide problem anyway' and get up and do something about this evil that has entered their midst before it claims more lives and makes their children 'refugees' in the land of their fore-fathers.
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Nwoke! Somebody is telling you, that our people are prisoners in their own land; peolpe are afraid to travel home, every Igbo from USA, Europe etc., on home visit becomes an antelope marked for hunting by kidnappers and robbers, informants everywhere ready to take money, in order to reveal who just came to town. There is no freedom of movement or interaction in Igboland, people live under constant fear, though there is no war. We, the Igbos have the worst security problem. We´re our own enemies. Take it or leave it: "we have a problem", which nobody can solve for us except ourselves. Luckily, there are other places to take refuge in Nigeria. My advice to travellers: keep your journey secret, only your friends know your secret so only them could reveal it, only for the sake of money; a horrible experience! Having to spend only one or two days with loved ones due to security uncertainties. Sorry for Biafra! Biafra is the hell itself and some have been through it, many more will have to suffer, if nothing is done . It has nothing to do with Nigeria.
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ashadestiney at 17-08-2012 10:18 PM (11 years ago) (f)
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Could Biafra have succeeded as a nation?
* Biafra would have become a threat to unity, peace and development of Africa.
There is no doubt that Biafra would not have succeeded as a nation, and could have been worse, as a country than the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and could have become the "Mexico of Africa", where killing, assassinations, murders, armed robbery, kidnappings, drug-peddling, gangsterism, 419, faking including prostitution and gayism, other forms of ungodly, indecency and criminality would have been legalised.
If Biafra nation had succeeded, kidnappings, armed robbery, under-age prostitution, drug-peddling and eating of human parts and for rituals and other acts of sodomy would have been institutionalised. In fact, Biafra, as a neighbouring country to Nigeria, would have been "as Mexico is to USA" in Africa, but we thank God that, He refused the plans and imaginations of the 'enemies within'.
It would have been a tragedy, a disaster and more than Armageddon to Nigeria and her citizens, if Biafra had been allowed, because as Nigerian neighbour, her citizens would have become nuisance, maladjusted and noisy neighbours to Nigerians, thereby disturbing her peace, unity and development.
Precisely, Biafra would have been a failed state, day one, if it had been allowed to stand, and her citizens would have constituted the greatest threat to peace of Nigeria, other neighbouring countries and African continent in general.
On statistical figure of number of victims of kidnappings in the Eastern Nigeria released by CD. The figure, 938, which many believed is likely to be higher than that, as most cases were not and cannot be reported to the police, for the reasons that, Nigerian Police officers are not trusted, they are accomplices of the kidnappers and the force at no time, has reliable records and statistics of crimes committed in the country; for its a compromised organisation. Therefore, the CD might have got it right, with its quoted figure.
But one wonders why the figure should be of more concern to the 'foolish' CSP Frank Mba, a born kidnapper turned a police officer than the crime itself. Even, if the figure released by CD is contestable, one wonders, why he paid more attention to that, than how the police are fighting the menace, which is gradually turning a norm, a culture and a trade, which had continued to restrict free movement of people and goods and which had curtail people's freedoms as guaranteed, under the laws of the land.
Finally, the fact that Biafra could not have succeeded or could have become a failed nation calls for why Igbos should stop worshiping late Odumegwu Ojukwu for his foolish war, which had directly and indirectly contributed to the non-peaceful, lack of unity and under-development of the S/East region, and which had made Igbos 2nd-class citizens in their fatherland.
The present state of S/Eastern States, which would have constituted Biafra nation had shown that, it could not have succeeded as a nation, even if it is eventually granted, now or in the future.
Time will tell...
Posted: at 17-08-2012 10:18 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
ashadestiney at 17-08-2012 10:22 PM (11 years ago) (f)
egbon It's a lie. Most kidnappers arrested so far were Igbos. Tell that to the birds. The Richest men in Nigeria either live in Abuja or Lagos, why have they not been kidnapped going by your theory?
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That explains why many Igbos are seeking refugee in south west to avoid being kidnapped. They go back to the East with bodyguads and police excorts and they live freely in south west.
You are right, the police are right too.
idowu
Igbo Kwenu!!! Kwezuo Nu!!!!
Dont mind the CD oh Pete Edochie, Nkem Owoh, Mr Ibus wife and Kid, ESUST VC, Justice Theophillus Ugwu, Dr Ifeanyi Eric Okoye (Juhel Pharmacy CEO) and his mother, Doctors kidnapped in Owerri, Abakaliki-based business mogul, Chief Godwin Nwosu,that was killed by kidnappers after collecting a ransom from his family and many other kidnapping cases were all false. None of these people were kidnapped and no ransome was paid. Nigeria police is right, the CD people are wrong.
Posted: at 17-08-2012 10:22 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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