$$Rhino:

and there are no ibo residing in owo?

I am pretty sure an Igbo man can differentiate an Igbo agboro with a Yoruba area boy

DeepZone:

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

Forget abt the media, there are ibo in owo and they cld ave arrange as well

Igbos have been known to kidnap each other even in their homeland, so kidnapping is not confined
to any particular tribe



Imo Assembly Speaker's Sons Kidnapped

This Day (Lagos)

NEWS
5 June 2008
Posted to the web 5 June 2008

By Amby Uneze
Owerri


http://allafrica.com/stories/200806050773.html

Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Emma Ezeazu, yesterday confirmed the kidnap of two sons of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Goodluck Opiah.

Ezeazu said in Owerri that following the report of the incident, the police had begun investigation into the matter. He said the police acting on a tip-off, also arrested three suspected kidnappers in a hotel in Aba in Abia State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the Speaker's sons were staying with their mother in Aba in Abia at the time of the incident. A NAN correspondent's effort to speak to Opiah on phone proved abortive as his mobile phone rang without reply.

However, Chief Press Secretary to Opiah, Mr Kelechi Mejuobi, told NAN that he heard about the incident from people, as he was out of the state capital for official engagements. NAN also reports that a special media luncheon and interactive session with the Speaker was postponed indefinitely.



Kidnap cases have been on the increase in Imo State in the last two months. The victims include Mrs Ngozi Nneji, the wife of ABC Transport Managing Director, a politician, Chief Tony Chukwu's father and Chief Celestine Ngaobiwu, a serving member of Imo House of Assembly.

$$Rhino:

Cos Owo people only make change from Cocoa and wont be enough for ransom

let them take the cocoa and smoke or shoot them up and leave the traders alone

and there are no ibo residing in owo?

imagine or even ijaw or hausa. Also lots  of Benin poeople are jobless  riffraffs and their proximity to Owo may be a cause for concern.

DeepZone:

imagine or even ijaw or hausa. Also lots of Benin poeople are jobless riffraffs and their proximity to Owo may be a cause for concern.

Dont mnd them, ppls just enjoy blaming others,and all these i just plaguing the nation

DeepZone:

imagine or even ijaw or hausa. Also lots  of Benin poeople are jobless  riffraffs and their proximity to Owo may be a cause for concern.

This time the kidnappers happen to be Ondo youths.
there are now almajiris in Ondo targetting Igbos.
that is an ethnic crime and should not be taken lightly.
That's how ethnic cleansings start
and those that fold their hands or live in denial are just as guilty

Kidnapping will kill Imo economy if not checked

By Fidelis Soriwei, Owerri,
Published: Thursday, 22 May 2008

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200805223283593

A former National Publicity Secretary of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Chief Nnamdi Olebara, has raised the alarm over the increasing spate of kidnapping in Imo State.

Olebara said that the kidnap-for-ransom trend in the state could have serious detrimental effect on the state if not checked promptly.

Olebara said that already, several potential investors and dignitaries were scared of visiting the state because of recorded incidents of successfully executed kidnaps currently put at eight.

In all the kidnap cases, the families of the victims had yielded to the warnings of the kidnappers and had often shunned security agencies to pay the negotiated ransom for the release of their kidnapped relatives.

Speaking in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, Olebara said that it would be inconceivable for anybody to talk about investments and development without giving due recognition to the centrality of the security of lives and property in the society.

He wondered why people were not being co-opted to complement the efforts of the security operatives in the bid to checkmate the disturbing development, stressing that the perpetrators of the heinous crime were individuals dwelling in the society.

He also queried where and how the criminals who reportedly operated in fake Army and Police uniforms got their uniforms and why the various police roadblocks all over the state had not been able to apprehend any of them.

He stated that the increasing incidents of violent crimes like robberies, kidnappings and others did not represent the face of Imo adding that the security situation in the state was abhorrent and sickening to people of repute with good intentions for the state.

He advised Governor Ikedi Ohakim to re-strategise and not to believe that the acts of banditry being perpetrated in the state were political activities.

He called on the Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr. Innocent Ilozuoke, to ensure a proper management of the police in the state with a view to fishing out bad elements and assigning responsibilities to competent people.

He also decried the abuse of the siren and rampant use of tinted glasses for cars in the state and urged the security agencies to enforce the laws against such errant people who went about with bogus titles in the society.

Olebara also condemned the recent approval of police escorts for the members of the Imo state house of Assembly by the police authorities.

looks like the owo area girls are already here

osisi you that is in obodo oyinbo, how you take know?  
are those almajiri now singing laila lolo in igbo?

This time the kidnappers happen to be Ondo youths.
there are now almajiris in Ondo targetting Igbos.
that is an ethnic crime and should not be taken lightly.
That's how ethnic cleansings start
and those that fold their hands or live in denial are just as guilty

You are right but what am suggesting is that ywe shouldn't close our eyes to other sources that may be responsible for the crime. A crime of hate is very heinous and should not be tolerated. I think they should also look into what triggered it. Did the ibos trigger such animosity by their overt showmanship among youths in a town that has no jobs or whatever to offer its youths?

*Igbo.

DeepZone:

You are right but what am suggesting is that ywe shouldn't close our eyes to other sources that may be responsible for the crime. A crime of hate is very heinous and should not be tolerated. I think they should also look into what triggered it. Did the ibos trigger such animosity by their overt showmanship among youths in a town that has no jobs or whatever to offer its youths?

You sink lower by the minute.
You remember the treacher in Gombe named Oluwatosin that was killed by almajiris because she"defiled the Koran" and yet no Koran was found
Is it possible to argue that she perhaps caused her own killing ?
In the same way when armed robbers shoot at you and take your "jeep" you probably brought it on yourself by driving in a flashy car amongst people riding molues?
How about 419ers?
they probably had no choice,they need to make a living
are you kidding me ?

IMO KIDNAPPERS REDUCE RANSOM FROM 500 MILLION NAIRA TO 250 MILLION NAIRA

Kidnappers cut down ransom on ABC owner’s wife

http://news.dailytrust.com/content/view/4927/27/

Written by John Kennedy, Owerri


The kidnappers of Mrs. Ngozi Nneji, wife of the ABC transport owner, who had earlier demanded a N500 million ransom before her release, have now cut down the ransom to N250 million.

Mrs. Nneji was recently abducted in a broad daylight by unknown persons in Owerri, Imo State.

Weekly Trust gathered that the family of Chief Frank Nneji, the husband of the kidnapped woman, was said to have offered N50 million for her release which the kidnappers have rejected.

There are indications that the woman may spend more days with kidnappers if nothing is done urgently to save her.

It was however gathered that well meaning citizens from the state including the Archbishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Bishop Anthony Obinna who on radio yesterday over the matter, appealed to the kidnappers to release the woman.

Meanwhile, the state police command has denied knowledge of the kidnap.

The PPRO, Linus Nwaiwu, told newsmen that the command has not yet received any formal report about the incident.

It would be recalled that the woman who is the manager of May Fair Suit, Owerri, was kidnapped at the premises of the Owerri Catholic Archdiocese Headquarters after an evening mass.

Texcee:


IMO KIDNAPPERS REDUCE RANSOM FROM 500 MILLION NAIRA TO 250 MILLION NAIRA

Kidnappers cut down ransom on ABC owner’s wife

http://news.dailytrust.com/content/view/4927/27/

Written by John Kennedy, Owerri


The kidnappers of Mrs. Ngozi Nneji, wife of the ABC transport owner, who had earlier demanded a N500 million ransom before her release, have now cut down the ransom to N250 million.

Mrs. Nneji was recently abducted in a broad daylight by unknown persons in Owerri, Imo State.
Weekly Trust gathered that the family of Chief Frank Nneji, the husband of the kidnapped woman, was said to have offered N50 million for her release which the kidnappers have rejected.

There are indications that the woman may spend more days with kidnappers if nothing is done urgently to save her.

It was however gathered that well meaning citizens from the state including the Archbishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Bishop Anthony Obinna who on radio yesterday over the matter, appealed to the kidnappers to release the woman.

Meanwhile, the state police command has denied knowledge of the kidnap.

The PPRO, Linus Nwaiwu, told newsmen that the command has not yet received any formal report about the incident.

It would be recalled that the woman who is the manager of May Fair Suit, Owerri, was kidnapped at the premises of the Owerri Catholic Archdiocese Headquarters after an evening mass.

They may be Ekiti indigenes by your logic


BTW Texcee/arnold1, isn't this getting too old ?

wetin concern ekiti in this mess

KarmaMod:

wetin concern ekiti in this mess

didn't you read the logic that the kidnappers in Ondo were possibly anything but Yoruba, how do we know the ones in Igboland were not Ijebus and Ekiti people afterall we have a road connecting the west to the East

You sink lower by the minute.
You remember the treacher in Gombe named Oluwatosin that waskilled by almajiris because she"defiled the Koran" and yet no Koran was found
Is it possible to argue that she perhaps caused her own killing ?      
In the same wway when armed robbers shoot at you and take your "jeep" you probably brought it on yourself by driving in a flahy car amongst people riding molues?
are you kidding me ?

[quote][/quote]

Your examples are ludicruos. A problem can only be solved if nipped from the bud. If the ibo traders are walking over owo youths not only ostentatiously but talking down on them without minding their emotions, it could trigger a thing alike this. i'm just offering a solution so that such a thing will not repeat itself again because after this, it may diffuse to other communities in Ondo and beyond.

as much as I understand you being offended by people mentioning Igbos I fail to see what concerns Ekiti with this.

pick on another state.

[size=14pt]Abduction for ransom becomes big business in Imo[/size]

http://www.thephctelegraph.com/stories/May,%202008/1405news_07.html



Even as Mike Okiro led Nigerian police force tighten up security and surveillance in anticipation of an attack by a bunch of lunatics called alqueda, the current scenario in Imo state, the eastern heartland, is reminiscence of happening in the street of Baghdad as abduction for ransom is at an all time high.


Today in Imo state, the fear of abduction is the beginning of wisdom. "What is all these? Within three weeks, three high profile abductions have gone unchallenged and our leaders are here trading blames while tax-payers are left at the mercy of hoodlums.

Need I say that our security is in a whirl wind?" That was the outburst of a top politician in Imo state, who for security reasons begged for anonymity. He was reacting to the recent abduction of the Honorable member representing Obowo state constituency in the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon Celestine Ngobiwu who was abducted on the evening of Wednesday, the 7th of May, 2008.

Huhuonline.com gathered that Imo state has been invaded by criminal syndicates specializing in abduction, kidnapping and bank robbery. It has been one tale of woe after another every week for the past couple of months. Since the 27th of March, 2008, brazen daylight bank robbery at Wethral road, Owerri that left 4 policemen dead and over 25 others injured, Imo has been in a whirlwind of commando style crime. Since then, over six other cases of bank robbery have been recorded in the state culminating in the robbery of three banks in Okigwe on Tuesday, the 6th of May 2008.

Though incidences of car snatching have also been recorded, what is bothering the Imo public presently in the spate of abduction and kidnapping in the state. When last February, a millionaire businessman in Orlu, Imo State, J.O. Ngumoha, was abducted to unknown destination by some faceless hoodlums, a fat ransom said to be about N20 million was paid to the criminal to secure his release. This came soon after a woman driving her child to school was abducted with her child. And it cost her husband, a Port Harcourt based oil magnate, about N10 million to secure their release, this also happened in Orlu town, a city, 45 minutes drive from the state capital. None of these incidents made headlines as they were apparently played down.


Presently, the syndicate moved their operation to the state capital around the third week of March, 2008 when they kidnapped the child of the Honorable member representing Isiala Mbano in the Imo State House of Assembly. Hon. Simeon Iwunze (Whiteman). It took another ransom to free the poor girl. In April, the wife of the ABC Transport company Chief Executive, Mr. Frank Nneji, tasted the hospitality of these hoodlums. Ngozi Nneji was abducted around Assumpta Cathedral area on her way back from evening mass and was held by her abductors for about a week before a comfortable compromise was reached between her family and the criminals. She is widely believed to have been released after her family paid a N10 million ransom. While Imo was about to celebrate the release of Ngozi Nneji, the aged father of Chief Tony Chukwu, a multi Millionaire business man and a political heavy weight in Imo state was abducted. The release of the aged Chukwu was effected with an N5million ransom.


While Pa chukwu is still recuperating in a hospital, Hon. Celestine Ngobiwu, member of the Imo state House of Assembly representing Obowo LGA was last Wednesday abducted. Imo state is clearly at a loss as to what to do under the prevailing circumstances as the security of the state is decidedly compromised. Huhuonline.com investigation reveal that Owerri, the state capital, hitherto known for its boisterous weekends is beginning to witness a recession as the crowd of celebrity weekenders are beginning to thin down. The showmanship of politicians in public function is gradually disappearing as they hardly make unnecessary public appearances. In spite of the fact that by two weeks ago, almost all the 27 House members of the Imo state House of Assembly had their personal security beefed up, Celestine Ngobiwu was still abducted.


This has sent a shockwave down the line of Imo crème de la crème. To make a bad situation worse, the Imo state Police command is presently not in a good state to effectively combat crime as the command is presently engrossed with redeployment formalities of the former state Police commissioner, Mr. Donald Iroham who has been redeployed to Lagos state and replaced with Mr. Innocent Ilozuoke who was formally heading the Abia state Police command. Public analysts who spoke to huhuonline.com are not entirely comfortable with the recent approach of the state government to the security situation in the state.


After a security stakeholders' meeting summoned by Governor Ikedi Hakim last week, he directed all the traditional rulers in Imo state to forward 25 names of suspected criminals in their communities to the government. Huhuonline.com learnt that beside the name-calling of political rivals and the unsubstantiated allegations of sabotage by government against perceived political enemies of government, observers strongly believe that the mandate to traditional rulers could only open a new vista to the already bad security situation in the state. While some opined that some of the royal fathers may use the Governor's directive to settle some personal scores, others maintained that such approach would ultimately polarize communities in the state.


Apparently nobody is safe in Imo today and there is panic in the air. As the security apparatuses continue to show helplessness in the face of the increasing rate of abduction which has become the "crime de la crime" in a state that was once known as the most peaceful state in Nigeria, The nagging question remains, who is the next victim?

DeepZone:



Your examples are ludicruos. A problem can only be solved if nipped from the bud. If the ibo traders are walking over owo youths not only ostentatiously but talking down on them without minding their emotions, it could trigger a thing alike this. i'm just offering a solution so that such a thing will not repeat itself again because after this, it may diffuse to other communities in Ondo and beyond.

Not at all.
Your way of thinking can be very strange and I'm not the only one who's made that simple observation.
You said the Igbo traders may have been targeted because of their showmanship amongst jobless disgruntled youths and I ask you why you should not be kidnapped and shot for daring to drive a car amongst people who are trekking ?
same logic

as much as I understand you being offended by people mentioning Igbos I fail to see what concerns Ekiti with this.

pick on another state.

=Akure=Ekiti= old ondo= owo=ondo=ekiti=Ado=Ikerre=Ono

KarmaMod:

as much as I understand you being offended by people mentioning Igbos I fail to see what concerns Ekiti with this.

pick on another state.

Why?
Is Ekiti a state?
I don't even know

clicking on recent topics don turn Indecency.
Make I go

Not at  all.
Your way of thinking can be very strange and I'm not the only one who's made that simple observation.
You said the Igbo traders may have been targeted because of their showmanship amongst jobless disgruntled youths and I ask you why you should not be kidnapped and shot for daring to drive a car amongst people who are trekking ?
same logic

There is a difference between ostentation and insulting someone in his/her  own fatherland for not being as succesful as you . That's one thing creating creating too much animosity between black Americans and nigerians. Same factor.

DeepZone:

There is a difference between ostentation and insulting someone in his/her  own fatherland for not being as succesful as you . That's one thing creating creating too much animosity between black Americans and nigerians. Same factor.

Is there any defense whatsoever for a criminal activity?
Are you unable to cast off the cloak of tribalism and call a crime a crime
than giving all these idiotic pediatric excuses
you seem to know details of these criminal acts than the reporters
they may need you  and your expertise to crack these cases

I hope you're not in anyway insinuating that Yoruba youths kidnap and loot individuals from other tribes in their homeland that seem richer than them
That's what anyone who stumbles on this thread will get from your posts here.

Queenisha:

Why?
Is Ekiti a state?
I don't even know

have you been drinking, osisi dear

[size=14pt]Abia - A State in the Grip of Kidnappers[/size]


http://allafrica.com/stories/200809060071.html


Abia - A State in the Grip of Kidnappers

Vanguard (Lagos)

NEWS
6 September 2008
Posted to the web 6 September 2008

By Uduma Kalu

"Have you heard the latest kidnap cases in Abia? a friend called last June 27. "A gang of kidnappers was smashed at Usaka in Ikwuano LGA," he said. Somebody had reported about the criminal gang. And the state government had mobilised its security apparatuses, including the police and rounded up the group in their coven in Ikwuano area of the state.

The government had paid N1m to the informant. In that camp, as they call the kidnappers' hideouts in the state, "Many folks kidnapped from many parts of the country were seen and rescued, such as a girl of three, kidnapped in Lagos, Ogochukwu etc. It is terrible that twice Ikwuano has been indicted. Mrs Nwakudu's case and now this," the caller went on.

The voice was lamenting the orgy of kidnappers that has seized Abia state. Less than one month after the call, another caller on July 22, reported that "Our governor was today attacked along Port Harcourt Road. His security, mobile police, ran into the bush and removed their clothes." As at the time of writing this report, chairman of Abia's Obingwa LGA was reportedly kidnapped, last week.

That all is not well with Abia is palpable in the state. Those calls were unnerving calls as kidnapping had never been heard of in that part of the world. The South East of Nigeria is generally a quiet region. The cases of violence that usually erupt from there are mainly armed robbers, and sometimes, political unrest of such group as Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign Republic of Biafra (MASSOB).

The new Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Sam Hart, had also expressed worry at the development, saying "kidnapping is a novel thing in the state."

But the reporter's decision to travel there was viewed with trepidation by his colleagues in Abia. Some of them told him that they "try to avoid that story."

"Why?" he asked them. "It is sensitive," another supplied. When he insisted on coming for the job, one of them asked him, "Will fear allow them (victims) to talk? Will they tell exactly or the amount spent? Are the ladies sexually molested?" another put in. "Try, but you must be covering your tracks," he said.

"They are sapping people here. Making easy money. Times are really hard. It may be hard to get the victims," another reporter pointed out.

Sadly, though, some of the kidnap victims do not talk about their experience which the state says frustrates its effort to stamp out the scourge. Some of them such as Mrs Nwakudu have even relocated from the town and state.

Such is the level of insecurity in Abia. When he arrived there, about 11 pm, the railway station, called Gate, was like a ghost town. At the station, the reporter wanted a cab to take him to the area known as World Bank. The woman selling drinks there warned him that it is a dangerous area. And that nobody would go there. But a man sitting beside her told her it was a lie. That taxis still went there at that time.

Umuahia is not really a night crawling town. Here, people fear to venture out in the night for fear of being grabbed by the police or attacked by armed robbers. In this state, one can still be arrested for trumped up offences such as wandering.

A man is still in prison arrested for this offence and since he could not 'bail' himself out for N2000, he was quickly taken to court. So far, he has spent two years there. So, people are careful to avoid this law of the jungle. Even the hotel management will warn you not to go out about 11 pm, not for fear of armed robbers, but of the police. That was a sad introduction to the reporter because for him, a city can be said to be safe only at night.

But next door, Owerri, a city also recently in the news for kidnapping, people milled around, shouting and playing music. For Umuahia, though, with the news of kidnapping in the state, it appears the town has descended more into a state of fear. Some of the kidnap cases that readily come to mind include the Executive Chairman, Abia State Universal Basic Education Board ASUBEB, Chief John Iruke. He was kidnapped one morning from his house as he set out for work in the first week of last month.

During the kidnap of Iruke, one of his personal aides was shot, and he sustained serious injuries. The aide was admitted in an undisclosed hospital for treatment. Iruke was reported to have paid some millions of naira as ransom. A Mrs Rich Onyeaso, wife of Engineer Onyeaso, a well known figure in the state was another victim, Another was a Dr Amanamba's wife, public figure there, and also one magistrate, Mrs Grant Osu.

A member of the Abia State House of Assembly, Monday Ejegbu was also kidnapped in Umuahia as he went to collect his clothes from a laundry on Herbert Macaulay Street.

Another case involved one Rev Udo Igwe. A woman who lives beside a Justice Aguwamba was said to have also been abducted at her home at Ikwuano. She was made to stay in the car for hours. But after many hours, she was asked to step out. That was in Port Harcourt. Alas, all that driving was made in Ikwuano. The good news though is that the police were said to have arrested the folks when they drove out with her vehicle to call their boss.

In fact, on Tuesday August 5, Abia State Police Command smashed three different gangs of deadly kidnappers. Parading the suspects, the Abia state Commissioner of Police, Mr Edgar Tam Nanakumo, said the state police command had created an Anti-Kidnapping Squad that is a force to be reckoned with.

A total of 17 suspects had been arrested so far in the state. Three suspects were, however, arrested for armed robbery while the rest were arrested for kidnapping with a number of deadly weapons recovered from them.

The state police had acted on a tip-off that one Pastor Chike Umeejesi had been kidnapped at gun point with his Toyota Jeep and taken to Umumba in Osisioma. The kidnappers had demanded for the sum of N20m as ransom.

But the police had swooped in on them and one Stanley, described by the Police boss as "the ring leader" was arrested. He was traced to Port Harcourt and caught. He operated with Chibouk Esenyenwu.

According to the Commissioner, "the victim was held hostage for five days in an obscure village known as Umumba village, Osisioma, where he was rescued by police detectives who acted on a tip-off."

The police had on August 2, raided a hide-out in Aba and rescued one Dr Ezuma of the University Teaching Hospital Aba and arrested an all male suspects, Onyekachi Ojusiogu, Ifeanyi Allison and Chinonso Owenah.

The owner of the clothe line, BYC Pants who, as a source said, "also had a taste of this when he came to Umuahia from Aba for the ordination of Elder Prof Igbokwe. It did not start this year," is one of them.

On July 2, one Mrs. Christy Egwu was kidnapped at Wethdral Road, Owerri, and taken to Amaka Village in Isialangwa North LGA of Abia state. She was further duped to the tune of over N400, 000 by the kidnappers. She was however rescued on July 30, by the state police Anti-Kidnap Squad which stormed the hideout.

Suspects arrested were Eze Egbu, 27, from Oba, Idemili LGA, Anambra, Goodluck Dimiri, 46, from Ohanze in Obingwa LGA, Abia State, Ndubisi Bethel, 26, from Ameba of Ameba Isialangwa and James Ogbonna, 35, from Ututu, Arochukwu LGA. One Toyota Carina, two motorcycles and one compact disc were recovered from them.

Last July 20th, one Nathan Onyenso was kidnapped at the premises of Deeper Life Bible Church, in Mkpuka village, Isialangwa South Local Government Area, together with his Honda Civic car. The police had also acted on a tip-off. It had arrested eight suspects at a hide-out and recovered a Nissan Pathfinder Jeep, a Sienna Space Jeep, damaged locally made guns and instruments used in repairing guns and one locally made double barrel pistol with a live cartridge.

The police also said it got information about one Chinanu Jack and Friday, aka Frayo, who had been on the wanted list of the police, suspected to be involved in the attack on the governor's convoy and a bullion van. Detectives in a joint operation with special anti-robbery squad, Zone 9 and vigilante pointer, stormed their hide-out in Isialangwa North Local Government Area and arrested a suspect who is helping the police in their investigations.

Another person in the state reported how the state police smashed a camp in the state. "The police suspected the car the kidnappers used. Of course, based on information. They caught the suspects and interrogated them. But they refused to talk. They were even threatened with death. One was shot on the leg and he started screaming that he would not die alone. He then took them to where they housed the woman.

They shot at the house and the people who were there ran away. They released the woman. While there, a woman who belonged to the group came with food for the kidnappers. On sensing that something was amiss, she ran away, leaving her transporter, a commercial bike, known as okada behind. She was arrested.

"The following day, after the shattering of the louvers and walls, the police went back to the hideout of the gang and met it being renovated. So, they burnt the upstairs building down," he narrated.

Another person pointed out that "Some persons like Dr Mrs Rose Ekeleme was phoned to keep money for them, but she told them nobody will come to her aid if they should abduct her. More so where the only person who would have been moved to source for money is dead. Her husband."

Another information said one Jane Kalu Igwe, from Ohafia, an assistant manager in the state transport corporation, Abia Line was killed early this year." It could be people she was blocking at the office. An aggrieved woman who felt she was taking her man?", another pondered.

Chief Agwu Anyansi, Chairman of Enyimba Football Club, was abducted just few kilometres off outside the Government House. His abductors asked for N20m for his release. Anyansi was said to have made a call to a close friend in Jos, intimating him of his plight but since that phone call, his number was not available.

Abia kidnappers do not appear to have any political backing. Rather, since it started in 2007 in the state, it had appeared like criminals pouncing on people they think can cough out millions of naira as ransom. Anyansi was said to have paid N10m, but this is still disputed.

However, frauds have also joined in reaping off the innocent Abians. Some of the fraud victims are said to include one Dr. K. U. Njoku (Heavy Rain). These people, it is said, " have lost huge sums due to phone manipulations about one deal or another.

"The same group almost got my friend. He was already jubilating about a contract worth millions," he said.

The frauds, he went on, would call somebody, inform him of a supply business. "You pay at the bank or in Heavy Rain's case, at a company at Enugu," he went on.

The irony is that the criminals work on their victims, noting their places of origin and saying their close friends and family members are part of the deal. They even speak the dialects of the victims.

"The result is that everyone suspects the other. Friends, family, neighbours, professional 419, etc might be just responsible," he said.

Is there any defense whatsoever for a criminal activity?
Are you unable to cast off the cloak of tribalism and call a crime a crime
than giving all these idiotic pediatric excuses
you seem to know details of these criminal acts than the reporters
they may need you and your expertise to crack these cases

I hope you're not in anyway insinuating that Yoruba youths kidnap and loot individuals from other tribes in their homeland that seem richer than them
That's what anyone who stumbles on this thread will get from your posts here.

there is no tribalism here. I just want to clarify that because a crime is committed in a certain geographical location doesn't m,an that it was committed by the indigenes besides, it's not right to talk down on people, it's not very nice. i detest the crime and violence involved tho.

Some of the posts here has shown that most Nigerians are really retarded.
Imagine people who have been speaking against the activities of MEND coming here to defend the hooligans in Ondo because it has to do with their tribe.

Shame on you nigerians!!!!!!!

biko, make then no come kidnap my grandmama for village, cos the kind ransome wey them dey demand tire man pikin o !!!!!!!!

nuzo:

Some of the posts here has shown that most Nigerians are really retarded.
Imagine people who have been speaking against the activities of MEND coming here to defend the hooligans in Ondo because it has to do with their tribe.

That was the reason I set up the thread. . . . the fact is that Nigerian Government cannot control law and order in Nigeria. . . . we are sitting on a tinderbox of unemployment. . . . a lot of ex-PDP thugs are running around with nothing to do but terrorise the population. . . . the fact is that militancy is rife in Nigeria be it Area boys, pdp thugs, kidnappers, armed robbers, yahoozees or whatever. . . . but when it comes to kidnapping in the Niger Delta, it is reported on every website and the bad publicity takes away legitimacy from the true Niger Delta struggle. . . .anyway, I set the booby trap to see how people react to this news. . . . and this just confirms that Nigerians are a bunch of no-good tribalists who are quick to shift blame from one tribe to the next instead of concentrating on the main cause of the problem - bad government!.