Residents of Nsukka urban and communities in Igbo-eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, now live in fear as a result of an upsurge in kidnapping in the area.
Already, the wife of Obi Mama, a prominent businessman, who was abducted a few days ago from her home at Iheaka in Igbo-eze South, is still being held captive as at press time.
Security sources said that her captors are now demanding a huge sum of money from her relations as ransom for the release of the victim.
A wealthy businessman and a schoolboy had earlier been kidnapped at the same Iheaka community, where kidnappers seem to have found a safe haven to operate.
The schoolboy reportedly escaped from the kidnappers’ den, while the man whose names could not be ascertained, bought his freedom with an undisclosed sum of money.
Boniface Odugu, a member of Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board and medical practitioner, was also kidnapped but he later regained his freedom after spending a week in his kidnappers’ den.
Luck however ran out on three suspected kidnappers a fortnight ago, at Olido, Igbo-eze South, where they were caught when they tried to abduct the chairman of vigilante group in the area.
At Nsukka urban, gallant students caught another kidnapper, who had gone to the Government Technical College (GTC) to collect a ransom brought by a relation of a victim of his gang.
Addressing journalists at the weekend on the precarious security situation in the South-East zone, chairman of MAN in Ebonyi, Enugu and Anambra states, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, blamed the wave of crime on refusal of government to support manufacturing sector.
Obidigbo decried the insincerity of the governors of states in the zone in fighting unemployment through promotion of locally made goods and provision of incentives to local manufacturers.
Noting that at the moment, manufacturing in Nigeria contributes as low as four per cent to the nation’s economic growth and 17 per cent in a country like Cote d’ Ivoire, the MAN chief lamented that the case of the South East has become most pathetic in view of the neglect of its huge potentials.
Obidigbo said: “That is why crime rate is high here because the youths roam the streets in search of employment and the governments have not done much to help us promote indigenous manufacturing, which is ideally the pivot of any nation’s real economic growth.”
He stated that “this scenario is replicated in the whole of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, including the states of the South-South geopolitical zone.”

http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=34323

why is it that we have kidnappers in my zone the SE

uche nana:

why is it that we have kidnappers in my zone the SE

alhajiuche u have started again , so this is your new strategy abi

This guy has started his madness again.

OP
I thought you said you were gone??

i have only spent a day on this forum and i am starting to get tried of it

instead of posters to address the issue, they insult the poster. stu.pid people

Alj Haram hates Igbos. Alj Haram would take Igbo names, and tell you he is half Igbo. But the RoosterDrinker can only be Igbo in his dreams.

komando77:

Alj Haram hates Igbos. Alj Haram would take Igbo names, and tell you he is half Igbo. But the RoosterDrinker can only be Igbo in his dreams.

How did you know?

The post is from a newsource. Why is it Uche-nana's problem for reporting facts? Nobody wants to invest in SE if this kind of rampant kidnapping goes on.

Hey "S.westerners", Oh please don't throw stones!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-722942.0.html

why should these kidnapping happen always on the same region

Negro_Ntns:

The post is from a newsource. Why is it Uche-nana's problem for reporting facts? Nobody wants to invest in SE if this kind of rampant kidnapping goes on.

yet its the richest region while your is competing with the north for the poorest region.
there are more kidnapping in the west than in the east so shut up