Speaker 1: Anambra is no doubt one of the states in Nigeria
Speaker 1: experiencing incessant and very high rates of kidnapping that in
Speaker 1: some cases do lead to the death of the abducted
Speaker 1: victims and killing of security operatives and some other persons
Speaker 1: around the scene of the mostly monetary crimes of hostage
Speaker 1: taking for a ransom. Specifically, our crime reporters gathered that
Speaker 1: there is hardly no week without one or two persons
Speaker 1: being kidnapped along the Anisio, a wary federal road in
Speaker 1: a Nambra State, especially between Over community and Ihiala town.
Speaker 1: As we gathered that most victims of kidnapping in the
Speaker 1: state are hard working small and medium sized business owners
Speaker 1: who most of whom struggled out of poverty to become
Speaker 1: wealthy successful traders. This we learnt there may be no
Speaker 1: wealthy successful business owner along the Ihiala or who road
Speaker 1: left to be kidnapped or forced to pay ransom to
Speaker 1: the kidnappers. While in ober wealthy people are being kidnapped
Speaker 1: quietly in ransom in millions are paid in silence to
Speaker 1: the kids. According to members of the community, a young
Speaker 1: successful businessman was kidnapped recently at a location between the
Speaker 1: ober New Road and Old Road junctions shortly after he
Speaker 1: visited his building construction site. While we also learned that
Speaker 1: some people in the state to report or contract their
Speaker 1: friends to kidnappers just to get a share from the
Speaker 1: ransom that will be paid afterwards or when such people
Speaker 1: have issued or dispute with their friends or co traders.
Speaker 1: It may interest you to know that the Enambra State
Speaker 1: Police Command recently arrested a twenty four year old male
Speaker 1: suspect muana Ye Victor for allegedly luring his friend to
Speaker 1: be kidnapped by his criminal gang Innuli Ihiala Local government
Speaker 1: area of the state, and they reportedly collected a ransom
Speaker 1: in dollars equivalent to five point three million narers with
Speaker 1: his gang members, just as government in a not too
Speaker 1: long distance time abducted a lawyer and two other persons
Speaker 1: in in polgu Aguata Local Government area of Anambra, in
Speaker 1: addition to the previous cases of kidnapping of the owner
Speaker 1: of De Porsche Club, Chief Phoebea Org by unknown gunmen
Speaker 1: after the gunmen killed numbers of persons along the New
Speaker 1: ober Newi Road in Idomili South Local government area of
Speaker 1: a Nambra State, with the number of those killed at
Speaker 1: the Porsha nightclubs said to be seven, but one of
Speaker 1: the security operatives was beheaded and another had his foot
Speaker 1: cut off and made away by the invading deadly kidnappers.
Speaker 1: This occurred shortly after a well known native doctor or
Speaker 1: which doctor chidos in nawangu Aka Aqua Okako Timuaaki, was
Speaker 1: kidnapped after his two personal aids killed in the vicinity
Speaker 1: of his hotel at ober community before the kidnappers effortlessly
Speaker 1: took him away and was released after ransom in millions
Speaker 1: were reportedly paid, that not all. On May twenty first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, shortly after Professor Chukuma Saludo was sworn
Speaker 1: in as governor, Gunman abducted the lawmaker representing Aguata to
Speaker 1: constituency in the State House of Assembly, oak Chakua Koye
Speaker 1: a Koye also known as Oki Dioke represented Soludo's state
Speaker 1: constituency Isoophia. A Koye was killed and beheaded alongside his aid,
Speaker 1: Cyril chi Egboka, six days after they were abducted along
Speaker 1: Aguilar Zigbo Road, Anaroka local government area of the state,
Speaker 1: and their heads and bodies dumped along a roadside in
Speaker 1: the state and in December twenty twenty four, another lawmaker
Speaker 1: in the state House of Assembly was Kidgana. Minister of
Speaker 1: Defense Edward Omain Bohmer, alongside seven other top government officials
Speaker 1: and military personnel, have been confirmed dead after Ghana Armed
Speaker 1: Forces in a statement on Wednesday, had declared the Zen
Speaker 1: nine military helicopter missing, stating the helicopter, traveling from the
Speaker 1: nation capital in a krat Obuasi in a shanty region,
Speaker 1: went off from radar at nine to twelve a m
Speaker 1: with three crew members and five passengers on board. Others
Speaker 1: killed in the helicopter crash, as confirmed by the Office
Speaker 1: of the President of Ghana include doctor al Haji Mattala Mohammad,
Speaker 1: MP for Tamali, Central Minister for Environment, Science and Technology,
Speaker 1: Alhaji Munaru Mahammad, Acting Deputy National Security Coordinator, doctor Samuel Sarpan,
Speaker 1: Vice Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Abboagier, former parliamentary candidate,
Speaker 1: Squadron Leader Peter Bafemi, Anila flying officer to Amampadou, and
Speaker 1: Sergeant ernest Ado Mensa. It was gathered that the military
Speaker 1: helicopter went down at a dancy Acro from in the
Speaker 1: Ashanti region on Wednesday for yet to be stated cause
Speaker 1: of the incident, as video footage showed the burnt beyond
Speaker 1: recognition bodies of those on board the aircraft. The aircraft
Speaker 1: was from ACCR and heading for Abousi and is currently
Speaker 1: off the radar. All efforts of being made to establish contact.
Speaker 1: The Ganer Armed Forces had stated in a statement earlier
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. The Government of Ghana has directed the all
Speaker 1: national flags be flown at half mast in honour of
Speaker 1: the late government top officials Edward Omein Bohma, Minister for
Speaker 1: Defense and Ibrahem Mattalamahammad, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation,
Speaker 1: among others, who died in the military helicopter crash. According
Speaker 1: to local media, the fatal incident occurred on Wednesday, August
Speaker 1: six in the Adansi Hakrofum district of the Ashanti Region,
Speaker 1: while the two ministers along with six others were en
Speaker 1: route to Habuasi for official duties. Announcing the directive, Chief
Speaker 1: of Staff Julius Demra expressed the government's deep sorrow regarding
Speaker 1: the loss of the two senior public officials and others
Speaker 1: on board the helicopter. The President is emotionally down. The
Speaker 1: Vice President is leading a team to formally inform the families.
Speaker 1: Education Minister Pruna Idrasu told news reporters following the tragic
Speaker 1: helicopter crash that claimed the lives of top government officials,
Speaker 1: including the Defense and Environment ministers, while announcing the death
Speaker 1: of the all passengers and crew members on board, The
Speaker 1: Ghana Chief of Staff Julius Deborah said on behalf of
Speaker 1: the President of the Republic, his Excellency John Dramani Mahamma,
Speaker 1: the Vice President, Professor Nanna Jama Poku Agumang, who is
Speaker 1: with us here and the Government of Ghana, I have
Speaker 1: the unpleasant duty sadly to renounce a national tragedy involving
Speaker 1: the crash of a military helicopter this morning around the
Speaker 1: Adancy area in the Ashanti Region. Government regrets to announce
Speaker 1: the demise of the following persons in the tragic crash.
Speaker 1: Doctor Edward Kofi Omain Boehmer Minister for Defense, Al Haji
Speaker 1: Doctor Ibrahim Mattala Mohammad, m P Minister for Environment, Science
Speaker 1: and Technology. Al Haji Munaru Mohammad, Acting Deputy National Security
Speaker 1: Coordinator and former Minister for Food and agriculture doctor Samuel Sarpong,
Speaker 1: vice chairman of the National Democratic A Nambra State government
Speaker 1: under the leadership of Governor Charles Chukuma Sludo, has said
Speaker 1: that the state is currently in search of justice over
Speaker 1: the killing of a young and creative fish farmer, Martin's
Speaker 1: of Fessenachi on Ye kc well known by his business
Speaker 1: name as Fish Magnet, who was reportedly shot on the
Speaker 1: leg while being kidnapped on Sunday, the twenty seventh of
Speaker 1: July twenty twenty five at his residence in Zini Fitte Village,
Speaker 1: a Puno in Orca, the Enambra State capital. This Dr
Speaker 1: George Mogalu, the Labour Party candidate in the forthcoming governorship
Speaker 1: election in the state, said that an Ambra State is
Speaker 1: no longer safe, adding that people are being killed, sloughted
Speaker 1: for their families to bury in silence, while the state governor,
Speaker 1: Professor Charles Chukuma Saludo looks the other way with no sympathy, condolence,
Speaker 1: visit or statement. Specifically, Moglou said, I must speak frankly,
Speaker 1: an amber is no longer safe, not even in the
Speaker 1: state capital are people are being slaughted, kidnapped and buried
Speaker 1: in silence while the government looks the other way. This
Speaker 1: is not leadership, it is abandonment. Just recently, we lost
Speaker 1: over ten lives in a ghastly accident at Amchi no
Speaker 1: We South local government area. Yet there was no statement,
Speaker 1: no condolence, not even a visit from the state government.
Speaker 1: Instead we see street renamings and political endorsement rallies. Where
Speaker 1: is our conscience, Mogolu stated, while the former lawyer to
Speaker 1: Namdi Cardu, the detained Biafra agitation leader, Barrister afangy g four,
Speaker 1: said the people of the state are currently romancing with crimes,
Speaker 1: hiding criminals and painting absurd narratives on social media to
Speaker 1: glorify and justify the rising crimes in the state, saying
Speaker 1: the most frightening part the reckless energy our own people
Speaker 1: expend defending these killers. When you shield murderers because they
Speaker 1: are your kinsmen, you embolden them. When you justify kidnappings
Speaker 1: under the guise of ethnic pride, you leave the gates
Speaker 1: wide open for the real external aggresses like armed herdsman,
Speaker 1: whose invasion will come when we are weakest and most divided.
Speaker 1: A Nambra's State Commissioner for Information Law Mepha made the
Speaker 1: government position known on Sunday after he led other government
Speaker 1: officials on a condolence visit to the bereaved mother of
Speaker 1: the victim, who happened to be the woman leader of
Speaker 1: the Enambra's State All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA missus ester
Speaker 1: on Ya KC. According to Punch newspaper, Honyaka, a son
Speaker 1: of the woman leader of the Enambra State All Progressives
Speaker 1: Grand Alliance, was abducted by government and his residence in
Speaker 1: Zenophied Community, Opuno Orca South Local Government area of Enamra State,
Speaker 1: in a late night attack on Saturday, July twenty sixth,
Speaker 1: and was subsequently killed. In a press statement released on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the State Commissioner for Information Law Mephor sympathized with the
Speaker 1: deceaseds family, assuring them that the state government is in
Speaker 1: search of justice while sustaining and strengthening security in the state. Meffer,
Speaker 1: who maintained that such a development is an affront to
Speaker 1: the Professor Chokuma Soludo government's new security architecture, also expressed
Speaker 1: delight that the police are on the heels of the perpetrators.
Speaker 1: The Commissioner was quoted as having stated this when he
Speaker 1: paid a condolence visit to the woman leader of the
Speaker 1: Enambra's State apger hester Onyekesi, according to the statement. The
Speaker 1: statement read in part the Enambra State Commissioner Gingi Bini
Speaker 1: in mogal