The Enugu State Police Command on Monday confirmed the abduction of the traditional ruler of Obom-Agbogugu, Awgu Local Government Area, Igwe Sunday Orji, and his wife, by gunmen. However, the abductors were said to have contacted the royal family and demanded N50m ransom.
Igwe Orji was kidnapped with his wife around Ogbaku before Agbogwugwu Junction along the Enugu-Port-Harcourt Expressway while they were returning from a thanksgiving mass.The mass was organised by the Bishop of Awgu Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Ifeanyi Okoye, for his mother, Ezinne Ekedimma Okoye, at the St. John’s Pro Cathedral Church, Owelli Awgu, on Sunday around 5pm.
Community sources told The PUNCH that the gunmen came out of the bush, shot continuously into the air, forced the monarch to a stop before whisking him away with his wife.
One of the sources said the kidnappers had already contacted the monarch’s family and demanded N50m ransom.
But confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, described the kidnapping of the monarch and wife as unfortunate.
Amaraizu, a Superintendent of Police, told our correspondent that the police swung into action to rescue the traditional ruler immediately the command got information about his kidnap.
According to him, a team of policemen was already in the bush trailing the Igwe’s abductors, adding that they would soon be arrested. (Punch)
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