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Two houses belonging to suspected kidnappers, Chinenye and Chigozie Isreal twins from Umuerim Nsirimo in Umuahia South LGA and property worth thousands of naira in the shop of one of the wives of the kidnappers, have been demolished by the Abia state government in line with its laws.

Also demolished in Ndume Otuka in Umuahia North LGA is a drinking joint where kidnappers use as rendezvous.

Information gathered that at the end of the demolition exercise, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, capt. Awa Udonsi Agwu said the buildings were pulled down because of kidnapping activities.

He explained that it is a law in Abia state that any location owned by kidnappers or where they use for their activities or meeting point will be demolished.

The Security Adviser advised youths to take their studies seriously and desist from going into crime as whatever wealth they make will soon vanish.

He commended the level of support the government has received from people in the localities in form of intelligence and appealed to those in the urban areas to come up with more credible information to help government in fishing out criminals.

In his speech, the executive chairman, Umuahia South LGA, Obioma Ogbulafor said the state government through the exercise has sent a clear signal to men of the underworld that Abia is not safe for them and urged kidnappers in the state to relocate.

Some of the locals who spoke including the youth leader and vigilante chairman of Umuerim community said the demolition of the buildings will serve as deterrent to other youths who may want to go into crime and lauded the state government for coming to their rescue as the kidnappers have been a source of threat to the community.

The Commissioner of Police in Abia State, CP Adeleye Oyebade in a telephone interview described the demolition exercise as a continuous one and in compliance with the law passed by the Abia State House of Assembly which ordered that the house of anybody caught in the act of kidnapping would be brought down.

He further disclosed that more houses used as kidnappers’ hideouts which have been identified by his men were also going to be brought down soon.

Oyebade used the opportunity to warn kidnappers in the state or those that are considering coming into the state to carry out their nefarious act to have a rethink on how to be useful to themselves and the society and warned that the police would not hesitate to apply the full weight of the law on anybody caught in the act or using his or her house as a hideout for kidnappers or where kidnapped victims were being kept.

Source; http://drinosblog..nl/2017/06/kidnappers-den-demolished-in-abia-photos.html

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Dominique Fynestboi

Hmmm.

Igbos.