Anambra is no doubt one of the states in Nigeria experiencing incessant and very high rates of kidnapping that in some cases do lead to the death of the abducted victims and killing of security operatives and some other persons around the scene of the mostly monetary crimes of hostage
taking for a ransom. Specifically, our crime reporters gathered that there is hardly no week without one or two persons being kidnapped along the Anisio, a wary federal road in a Nambra State, especially between Over community and Ihiala town. As we gathered that most victims of kidnapping in the state are hard working small and medium sized business owners who most of whom struggled out of poverty to become
wealthy successful traders. This we learnt there may be no wealthy successful business owner along the Ihiala or who road left to be kidnapped or forced to pay ransom to the kidnappers. While in ober wealthy people are being kidnapped quietly in ransom in millions are paid in silence to the kids. According to members of the community, a young successful businessman was kidnapped recently at a location between the ober New Road and Old Road junctions shortly after he
visited his building construction site. While we also learned that some people in the state to report or contract their friends to kidnappers just to get a share from the ransom that will be paid afterwards or when such people have issued or dispute with their friends or co traders.
It may interest you to know that the Enambra State Police Command recently arrested a twenty four year old male suspect muana Ye Victor for allegedly luring his friend to be kidnapped by his criminal gang Innuli Ihiala Local government area of the state, and they reportedly collected a ransom in dollars equivalent to five point three million narers with his gang members, just as government in a not too long distance time abducted a lawyer and two other persons
in in polgu Aguata Local Government area of Anambra, in addition to the previous cases of kidnapping of the owner of De Porsche Club, Chief Phoebea Org by unknown gunmen after the gunmen killed numbers of persons along the New ober Newi Road in Idomili South Local government area of a Nambra State, with the number of those killed at the Porsha nightclubs said to be seven, but one of the security operatives was beheaded and another had his foot
cut off and made away by the invading deadly kidnappers. This occurred shortly after a well known native doctor or which doctor chidos in nawangu Aka Aqua Okako Timuaaki, was kidnapped after his two personal aids killed in the vicinity of his hotel at ober community before the kidnappers effortlessly took him away and was released after ransom in millions
were reportedly paid, that not all. On May twenty first, twenty twenty two, shortly after Professor Chukuma Saludo was sworn in as governor, Gunman abducted the lawmaker representing Aguata to constituency in the State House of Assembly, oak Chakua Koye a Koye also known as Oki Dioke represented Soludo's state
constituency Isoophia. A Koye was killed and beheaded alongside his aid, Cyril chi Egboka, six days after they were abducted along Aguilar Zigbo Road, Anaroka local government area of the state, and their heads and bodies dumped along a roadside in the state and in December twenty twenty four, another lawmaker
in the state House of Assembly was Kidgana. Minister of Defense Edward Omain Bohmer, alongside seven other top government officials and military personnel, have been confirmed dead after Ghana Armed Forces in a statement on Wednesday, had declared the Zen nine military helicopter missing, stating the helicopter, traveling from the nation capital in a krat Obuasi in a shanty region, went off from radar at nine to twelve a m
with three crew members and five passengers on board. Others killed in the helicopter crash, as confirmed by the Office of the President of Ghana include doctor al Haji Mattala Mohammad, MP for Tamali, Central Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Alhaji Munaru Mahammad, Acting Deputy National Security Coordinator, doctor Samuel Sarpan, Vice Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Abboagier, former parliamentary candidate, Squadron Leader Peter Bafemi, Anila flying officer to Amampadou, and
Sergeant ernest Ado Mensa. It was gathered that the military helicopter went down at a dancy Acro from in the Ashanti region on Wednesday for yet to be stated cause of the incident, as video footage showed the burnt beyond recognition bodies of those on board the aircraft. The aircraft was from ACCR and heading for Abousi and is currently off the radar. All efforts of being made to establish contact. The Ganer Armed Forces had stated in a statement earlier
on Wednesday. The Government of Ghana has directed the all national flags be flown at half mast in honour of the late government top officials Edward Omein Bohma, Minister for Defense and Ibrahem Mattalamahammad, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation,
among others, who died in the military helicopter crash. According to local media, the fatal incident occurred on Wednesday, August six in the Adansi Hakrofum district of the Ashanti Region, while the two ministers along with six others were en route to Habuasi for official duties. Announcing the directive, Chief of Staff Julius Demra expressed the government's deep sorrow regarding the loss of the two senior public officials and others
on board the helicopter. The President is emotionally down. The Vice President is leading a team to formally inform the families.
Education Minister Pruna Idrasu told news reporters following the tragic helicopter crash that claimed the lives of top government officials, including the Defense and Environment ministers, while announcing the death of the all passengers and crew members on board, The Ghana Chief of Staff Julius Deborah said on behalf of the President of the Republic, his Excellency John Dramani Mahamma, the Vice President, Professor Nanna Jama Poku Agumang, who is
with us here and the Government of Ghana, I have the unpleasant duty sadly to renounce a national tragedy involving the crash of a military helicopter this morning around the Adancy area in the Ashanti Region. Government regrets to announce the demise of the following persons in the tragic crash. Doctor Edward Kofi Omain Boehmer Minister for Defense, Al Haji Doctor Ibrahim Mattala Mohammad, m P Minister for Environment, Science
and Technology. Al Haji Munaru Mohammad, Acting Deputy National Security Coordinator and former Minister for Food and agriculture doctor Samuel Sarpong, vice chairman of the National Democratic A Nambra State government under the leadership of Governor Charles Chukuma Sludo, has said that the state is currently in search of justice over the killing of a young and creative fish farmer, Martin's of Fessenachi on Ye kc well known by his business name as Fish Magnet, who was reportedly shot on the
leg while being kidnapped on Sunday, the twenty seventh of July twenty twenty five at his residence in Zini Fitte Village,
a Puno in Orca, the Enambra State capital. This Dr George Mogalu, the Labour Party candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in the state, said that an Ambra State is no longer safe, adding that people are being killed, sloughted for their families to bury in silence, while the state governor, Professor Charles Chukuma Saludo looks the other way with no sympathy, condolence,
visit or statement. Specifically, Moglou said, I must speak frankly, an amber is no longer safe, not even in the state capital are people are being slaughted, kidnapped and buried in silence while the government looks the other way. This is not leadership, it is abandonment. Just recently, we lost over ten lives in a ghastly accident at Amchi no We South local government area. Yet there was no statement, no condolence, not even a visit from the state government.
Instead we see street renamings and political endorsement rallies. Where is our conscience, Mogolu stated, while the former lawyer to Namdi Cardu, the detained Biafra agitation leader, Barrister afangy g four, said the people of the state are currently romancing with crimes, hiding criminals and painting absurd narratives on social media to glorify and justify the rising crimes in the state, saying the most frightening part the reckless energy our own people
expend defending these killers. When you shield murderers because they are your kinsmen, you embolden them. When you justify kidnappings under the guise of ethnic pride, you leave the gates wide open for the real external aggresses like armed herdsman, whose invasion will come when we are weakest and most divided.
A Nambra's State Commissioner for Information Law Mepha made the government position known on Sunday after he led other government officials on a condolence visit to the bereaved mother of the victim, who happened to be the woman leader of the Enambra's State All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA missus ester
on Ya KC. According to Punch newspaper, Honyaka, a son of the woman leader of the Enambra State All Progressives Grand Alliance, was abducted by government and his residence in Zenophied Community, Opuno Orca South Local Government area of Enamra State, in a late night attack on Saturday, July twenty sixth,
and was subsequently killed. In a press statement released on Sunday, the State Commissioner for Information Law Mephor sympathized with the deceaseds family, assuring them that the state government is in search of justice while sustaining and strengthening security in the state. Meffer, who maintained that such a development is an affront to the Professor Chokuma Soludo government's new security architecture, also expressed delight that the police are on the heels of the perpetrators.
The Commissioner was quoted as having stated this when he paid a condolence visit to the woman leader of the Enambra's State apger hester Onyekesi, according to the statement. The statement read in part the Enambra State Commissioner Gingi Bini in mogal