A factional paramount ruler of Alesa community in Eleme local government in Rivers state who was kidnapped in his bedroom in Alesa a week ago is still in captivity.

Dr. Isaac Eyii Ngulube is a lecturer, Rivers State University of Science and Technology and also the paramount ruler of Alesa, that hosted Port Harcourt Refinery Company.

Though some are saying, he has been released and is taking treatment in an undisclosed hospital, but when Holygist interviewed a prominent community leader in the area, who refused to disclose his name and pleaded for anonymity because he was not authorized to speak, he said…

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He wonders how a paramount ruler whose community has been in tears and travails because of the incident could be released without celebration in the community. Some Effort was also made to inquire from his rival on the same Alesa throne, Chief Emperor J.D Nkpe but his phone was switched off. It would be recalled that the Alesa throne which has Chief Ngulube and chief Emperor J.D Nkpe on one side has been subjected to litigation for some years now.

Kidnappings has assumed a dangerous dimension in Eleme as no week passes without people been kidnapped, when Holygist inquires from some residents in the area, they attributed it to lack of political will on part of the council chairman,

Others are of the view that law and order is at its lowest ebbs as traditional rulers have abdicated their primary responsibility and are no longer in control of the area, one Oluka explained “imagine in almost all the communities in Eleme, except Onne and Akpajo communities, no paramount rulers is in their domain, is either they operate from Port Harcourt or else where,

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They have been driven away because of their compromising standard,” On the part of the youth leaders who are supposed to assist the chiefs in their various communities, the stories are the same, the majority of them lives outside Eleme and one wonders how they could help and checkmate crimes and criminality from outside the community.

Others attributed it to rise in consumption of illicit drugs which promotes cultism, kidnappings, armed robbery, raping, pipelines vandalism other anti-social behaviors.
Some also blamed it on the poor handling of the state government Amnesty granted to some cultists without rehabilitating and properly integrating them

Ever since the monarch was abducted, business activities in the area are also affected, the palace of the traditional ruler which is always a beehive of activities is now deserted,

If urgent steps are not taking to put an end to this ugly trend of kidnappings that has enveloped the area, economic activities would be totally affected soon. HolyGist submission