[center]Ondo: Youths kidnap, release 5 traders [/center]

Five Igbo traders in Owo local government area of Ondo State were kidnapped by unknown youths in the town. The victims were abducted on Saturday September 6 and later regained freedom last Friday. It was gathered that an undisclosed huge amount of money was paid to the youths to secure the release of the victims by the Igbo community. Niger Delta STANDARD Correspondent gathered that their release was made possible because of the intervention of Olowo of Owo, Oba Victor Olateru- Olagbegi and other notable chiefs in the town.

Those abducted were: Mr. Mike, Okechukwu Okafor, Chigozie Nwanekezi, Monday and Agboh. Worried by this development, the Igbo community staged protest to the State Police Commissioner, Charles Dawodu, shortly after their kinsmen were freed. The chairman of the Igbo community in Owo, Mr. Eze Chidozie who led his kinsmen to the state police commissioner said the youths had made life unpleasant for them in the community. He said the suspected militant youths abducted sixteen Igbo people in the last one-year and huge ransoms were paid before they were released to the Igbo community According to Chidozie, "These militant youths just enter our stores at will, carry our goods and ask us to pay certain amount of money before they will release these items.

They will just kidnap that person who argues with them and take such person to their cell. After, they would demand for ransom which start from N100, 000 and above, they would not release the victim until their demand is met." Chodozie said that the abduction was alien to the town as Igbo traders and other ethnic groups had been living in harmony with the people of Owo who he described as 'peace loving'. However, a reliable source close to the Olowo of Owo, Oba Victor Olaretu-Olagbegi, told our correspondent that such case was never reported to the Olowo. But, Chidozie pointed out that the Igbo community had reported severally to the monarch of the town without meaningful solution, threatening that his kinsmen would not open their shops until the issue is addressed by government and other stakeholders.

He appealed to the state police commissioner to beef up security among Igbo traders in Owo town, saying that the youths had turned abduction and looting of Igbo stores as a source of generating income. Chidozie said all Igbo indigenes in the state would join their kinsmen to protest against the injustice meted on them. The state Police Commissioner, Charles Dawodu who confirmed the incident blamed the Igbo traders for not reporting the alleged series of kidnapping in Owo town to him. Dawodu pointed out that he had met with traditional ruler of the ancient city and other prominent traditional chiefs to find a lasting solution to the illegality being perpetrated by the Owo youths.[b][/b]

This is correct!

I thought kidnapping was a strictly Ijaw phenomenom. . . . or should we call it what it is. . . .a poverty phenomenom.

They should simply arm themselves with guns to protect themselves and their property.
That may send a message to the almajiris of Owo

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Na. . . . these kidnappers are simply profiteering criminals, just like Area boys in Lagos. . . . nothing to do with MEND. . . .the same way people in Niger Delta saw that kidnapping is a money making exercise. . . . so should we tar all Yorubas with the brush of kidnapping or should we call it what it is?

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you know they have Ijaw people in Ondo too
they don turn to "fishers of men" for that side too

The kidnappings occured in Owo local government area, not Apoi or Arogbo. . . . it was the Oba of Owo who negotiated the release with the militants

why are they kidnapping Ibo traders, why don't they kidnap their own brothers

small time now, aboki people go collect batton, begin kidnap for Kano

This is a deplorable development that needs to be dealt with before it gets out of hand.

I think they shd kidnap the minister of defence as well as all the police officers in OWO.
and take the governor into custody as well.

When they were kidnapping the expatriates in N-D everyone turned a blind eye,now there are no more white men to kidnap and the biz must continue.shiooor and sawwrry oooooh

ND people shouldn't have a monopoly over the kidnapping hustle

ifyalways:

When they were kidnapping the expatriates in N-D everyone turned a blind eye,now there are no more white men to kidnap and the biz must continue.shiooor and sawwrry oooooh

So it is now a business, no wonder the unemplyment rate in ND is just 1% cos they are all busy kidnapping and collecting ransom.

Kidnapping is not a new thing in Nigeria. There have been a lots of kidnappings in hausaland, iboland etc even before the ijaws started a career in kidnapping. I still think the ijaw has a hand in this ondo thing or it could be the ibo that is kidnapping their brother afterall, how will the locals know how much those ibo boys have if not for inside information?


Kidnapping is becoming a serious issue in Nigeria now and i think armed robbery is slowly getting out of fashion.

DeepZone:

Kidnapping is not a new thing in Nigeria. There have been a lots of kidnappings in hausaland, iboland etc even before the ijaws started a career in kidnapping. I still think the ijaw has a hand in this ondo thing or it could be the ibo that is kidnapping their brother afterall, how will the locals know how much those ibo boys have if not for inside information?
Kidnapping is becoming a serious issue in Nigeria now and i think armed robbery is slowly getting out of fashion.

Is that your spin on this whole thing?
Hmm
Maybe it's the Igbo men also stuffing cocaine in their anuses for transatlantic trading.
this girl sef

Must be cheap to do too

Queenisha:

Is that your spin on this whole thing?
Hmm
Maybe it's the Igbo men also stuffing cocaine in their anuses for transatlantic trading.
this girl sef

Singapore

Is that your spin on this whole thing?
Hmm
Maybe it's the Igbo men also stuffing cocaine in their anuses for transatlantic trading.
this girl sef

It's not a spin but a possible fact. It's those that know you very well that can easily value you and know whether it's worth it to kidnap you or not.

the 76 year old baba that used his rectum as a ghana must go was also influenced by an Igbo man.
The "most wanted " criminals here in America are Igbo men that adopted Yoruba names.
and those that looted our treasury were smoking Igbo and then became Igbo
I bet Yorubas don't kidnap

DeepZone:

It's not a spin but a possible fact. It's those that know you very well that can easily value you and know whether it's worth it to kidnap you or not.

Traders don't usually hide their wares
How would people know what they're selling?
does one need an oracle to tell that a trader selling ladies shoes probably has several pairs in his storage area
I'm surprised you are coming to the defence of these useless hooligans

the 76 year old baba that used his rectum as a ghana must go was also influenced by an Igbo man.
The "most wanted " criminals here in America are Igbo men that adopted Yoruba names.
and those that looted our treasury were smoking Igbo and then became Igbo
I bet Yorubas don't kidnap

Thats not the case here but if you notice the way Ibime entitled this thread like Yorubas already have a kidnapping syndicate like his Ijaw brothers that are career kidnappers. If you ask me, it's a desperate attempt to get an accesory to that trade.

Targetting the Igbo traders is what I find annoying.
Are there no Ondo traders in Owo ?
why pick on Igbos ?
If they must kidnap,they should kidnap their own people and don't make it a tribal war.
Igbos can't be targetted by almajiris of Kano and Gombe
Now almajiris of Ondo.
That is not right.

Traders don't usually hide their wares
How would people know what they're selling?
does one need an oracle to tell that a trader selling ladies shoes probably has several pairs in his storage area
I'm surprised you are coming to the defence of these useless hooligans

I'm not defending the criminals. I'm only defending the fact that you guys are tying yorubas to that crime because it happened in yorubaland. Does it mean that every crime in American soil was committed by Americans?

Cos Owo pple only make change from Cocoa and wont be enuf for ransom

Like i said before there is no need for the tribal bashing, let us realize that crime is an individual thing and not a tribal thing.

Targetting the Igbo traders is what I find annoying.
Are there no Ondo traders in Owo ?
why pick on Igbos ?
If they must kidnap,they should kidnap their own people and don't make it a tribal war.
Igbos can't be targetted by almajiris of Kano and Gombe
Now almajiris of Ondo.
That is not right.

Depends on who's targeting them? It be an ibo on ibo crime.

He said the suspected militant youths abducted sixteen Igbo people in the last one-year and huge ransoms were paid before they were released to the Igbo community According to Chidozie, "These militant youths just enter our stores at will, carry our goods and ask us to pay certain amount of money before they will release these items.

They will just kidnap that person who argues with them and take such person to their cell. After, they would demand for ransom which start from N100, 000 and above, they would not release the victim until their demand is met."

If these people were not Yoruba militant youths,I'm sure the traders could tell.
They did not come from Katsina or Yenegoa

and there are no ibo residing in owo?

If these people were not Yoruba militant youths,I'm sure the traders could tell.
They did not come from Katsina or Yenegoa

The media can add salt and papper to a story to hype the flavour.

DeepZone:

Depends on who's targeting them? It be an ibo on ibo crime.

The earlier you got your head out of the sand the better for you.
There are kidnappers all over Nigeria including Ondo.
These ones happen to be Yoruba youths targetting Igbo traders.
You can deny and spin it whatever way you'll like to
If that makes you feel better.
Like I said earlier,the traders ought to arm themselves to protect their property.