Okafor Ofeibor/Port Harcourt
Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase
A secondary school teacher in Ubima, the village of the former governor of Rivers, Rotimi Amaechi in Ikwerre local Government, Mrs Ubaka Chukwu, was yesterday abducted on her way from school.
The husband of the abducted secondary teacher, Ubaka Chukwu, has confirmed the kidnap of his wife and lamented that the kidnappers have contacted him are demanding N5 million ransom before the wife could be released.
It would be recalled that while Amaechi who is now Minister for Transport was on live radio programme last Saturday in Port Harcourt, he heavily condemned the incumbent governor, Nyesom Wike, of abandoning the protection of lives and property in the state.
He also decried the level of kidnappings, killings and the beheading of people in the state.
Samuel Nwanosike, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ikwerre local Government area and Assistant Publicity Secretary of the State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had phoned in and accused Amaechi of not doing anything about the kidnapping rings and hideouts located in his community, Ubima.
Amaechi replied by saying that his people in Ubima have been at the receiving end of the rough edges of insecurity like kidnapping and that but for his appeal to the Chief of Army Staff for a deployment of soldiers to Ubima the security situation could have been worse alleging that the state Government refused to tackle insecurity in state. …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
