Unfortunately, crime reigned on the road, hence kidnapping by suspected Fulani herdsmen and other violent crimes have been taking place along the Ugwuogo-Opi-Nsukka road as well as the Ugwuogo-Neke-Ikem road. Despite security checkpoints along the roads, the spate of crime increased on the roads.

A Security expert who spoke to Vanguard on the condition of anonymity confided that both the federal and state governments have security reports that the bandits have remained in the forests of communities in Ojebogene, Nike, Igboetiti and Isi-Uzo local government areas from where they have continued to operate along the 9th mile -Nsukka road, the old 9th mile-Opi-Nsukka road and their recent relocation to Ugwuogo areas because of increased traffic in the area

“How can a dog eat the bone that is hung around his neck for safe keeping? The military is supposed to protect us but they have become our nightmares. They now connive with kidnappers to deal with us. This was exactly the case in Kaduna where the current GOC, 82 Div was in charge of the military. He has now resumed his operations here in Enugu. We also call on the Nigerian Army to fish out the soldiers on duty along the 4 corners/Nvene road on Friday 14th October 2022, the day we were set free and bring them to book. They were complicit in our Kidnapping. Ndi Enugu, we must cry out now. Enough is enough!!!

From one of the kidnapped victims.”

In June 2022, no less than seven suspected kidnappers for ransom, made up of Fulani herdsmen and other natives, were arrested by both community security outfits and the police in different parts of Enugu state. In Ibite-Awhum community of Udi local government council area, suspected Fulani kidnappers allegedly invaded the community and kidnapped six pilgrims on June 19. The victims were later rescued by forest guards. The kidnappers reportedly nabbed the pilgrims in broad daylight as they were praying at a popular hill near the Awhum Monastery and took them deep into the forest. The victims were later rescued through joint efforts of forest guards from the Udi and Enugu East Local Government Councils.

The security agents were said to have swung into action immediately receiving the information and pursued after the kidnappers. Director of Enugu State Forest Guards, Mr. Mathew Obodoechi, said the Forest guards in the area pursued the kidnappers and contacted their counterparts at Ogbeke-Nike, Enugu East Local Government who also mobilised from their own end.

Narrating their ordeal, the victims who were evacuated to the Monastery, said they were praying on the hill when they were suddenly surrounded by about seven Fulani looking individuals wearing police uniforms.

“The bandits took all our phones and ordered us into the forest. After a long trek we got into the bandits’ camp deep in the forest where their colleagues numbering about ten were waiting for them. We also found another kidnap victim there. For reasons we didn’t know then, the kidnappers suddenly became panicky and subsequently ran into the forest leaving us alone and confused before the forest guards appeared,” one of the victims narrated.

In Ikem, Isi-uzo local government area, about five indigenes were abducted in a series of kidnapping jointly carried out by both natives of Enugu state and Fulani herdsmen that are reportedly camped at the Isi-Uzo/Benue state border at Okpokwu local government area of Benue state.

kettykin:
You are very observant bro, I have been analysing this for a while

owobokiri:


Based on the report, In some instances, the kidnappers actually received their ransoms infront of soldiers who were stationed just a few steps away at their checkpoints along that road! And this all started after the appointment of the new GOC, who used to be the man in command at Kaduna while Kaduna was boiling! Do your maths....

dollytino4real:
No com here com complain, dem no dey here, catch dem show dem stream

tunjiajayi:
Fulanis of ipob parents you mean.

naijaking1:
Since the posting of Maj. Gen Umar Musa (Fulani) to the 82 Div as GOC, the same pattern of Kidnapping that happened in Kaduna where he came from started happening here in Enugu.
Enugu people should protect themselves from the corrupt Fulani army.

tunjiajayi:
Fulanis of ipob parents you mean.

DadaHammed:
This kidnapping issue is big business for Fulani big men in this country and there brothers in the military are complicit.

RZArecta:
you're shameless. A few days ago, people were kidnapped and some killed along Lagos-Ibadan express road but your rotten teeth was nowhere to be found. Continue living in a foóls paradise because of tribal bigotry

tunjiajayi:


My mother is cow shít.

QuotaSystem:
Helicopter kor, parachute ni. I wonder what these people expected when IPOB released over 1000 convicted criminals, kidnappers, murderers, ritualists, cannibals and the lowest of humankind, from Owerri Prison into the streets of the South East.

Blinded by their hate-driven myopic thought that they were “doing Buhari”, they cheered the IPOB/ESN terrorists and celebrated the jailbreak, even giving the false justification that most of the escaped criminals were wrongly convicted.

Now the entire thing has turned around to bite their arses, and they have resumed their usual false deflective “suspected Fulani” narratives in a bid to evade taking responsibility for creating the monster that is now consuming them.

Enugu State directly borders Anambra State, where Governor Soludo emphatically stated that 100% of the criminals and kidnappers caught were 100% Igbo. How then is it logical, reasonable and rational not to expect the same to apply to neighboring Enugu? Were Helicopters also dropping the Igbo criminals terrorizing neighboring Anambra as Soludo clearly stated?

Keep trying to hide behind your finger.

owobokiri:
There has been an upsurge in herdsmen kidnappings in Enugu over the last few days. This is coming after Enugu residents complained of helicopters dropping northerners in the hills surrounding the city.. The Nsukka to Enugu part of the state is basically under lockdown. Folks that travelled down to the villa can't come out. Even students returning back to UNN are being kidnapped..











MORE HERE

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/10/enugu-in-trouble-kidnappers-everywhere/

owobokiri:
There has been an upsurge in herdsmen kidnappings in Enugu over the last few days. This is coming after Enugu residents complained of helicopters dropping northerners in the hills surrounding the city.. The Nsukka to Enugu part of the state is basically under lockdown. Folks that travelled down to the villa can't come out. Even students returning back to UNN are being kidnapped..











MORE HERE

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/10/enugu-in-trouble-kidnappers-everywhere/