Hundreds of women stage massive protest in Imo over incessant kidnappings

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- Women from Umuowa-Ibu community in Okigwe local government area of Imo state staged a protest over kidnappings in their community

- The women protested to the Imo state police command asking the police to prosecute the three kidnap suspects arrested in the community

- The police assured them that appropriate actions will be taken to address their agitations

Hundreds of women in Imo state on Monday, February 12, staged a protest in the state capital, over incessant kidnappings in their community.

Vanguard reports that the women, who are from Umuowa-Ibu community in Okigwe local government area, also moved to the Imo state police command, where their protest letter was received by the police public relation officer, Andrew Enwerem.

NAIJ.com gathered that the letter was signed by elders, women and youths of the community; Mazi Nelson Okoronkwo, Chukwu Vin Okorie, Helen Akazie among others.

The women were embattled that the people of the community had been under intense fear, since 2015 till date, over the activities of kidnappers in their community.

They claimed that they decided to come to the police headquarters, after several reports to the police state in Okigwe, was not yielding any result.

Their letter in part: “It is with hearts full of sorrow and pains that we, the entire people of Umuowa -Ibu community in Okigwe LGA, wish to bring to your knowledge acts of the kidnapping of our children, which has become an annual event in our community.”

“This is a sin against God and humanity, it started in the year 2015, with a year and three months old baby of the family of Mr. Edwin Okorie of Umuorsu village.

“In 2016, this community again witnessed and experienced another disappearance of a young man by name Mr Ekene Odoemena. He was aged 50 years.

“In 2017, precisely, on the 14th day of December, another one happened. This time, it was the turn of one master Chisom Nnadi of about three years and eight months.

“The boy was in the midst of his fellow children playing when he was taken away in the afternoon of that fateful day.”

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The women also pleaded with the police that three suspects who were arrested in connection with the kidnappings in the community should be made to face the law.

In his reaction, Enwrem told them that the commissioner of police has received their letter and would take appropriate action in that regard.

NAIJ.com previously reported that the governor of Cross River, Ben Ayade, approved a 24-hour security coverage for medical doctors and other professionals in the state in order to check kidnapping.

The development was made public by the governor’s security adviser, Jude Ngaji, and follows the strike action embarked upon by the state chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, in protest against the kidnap of two of their colleagues within a one-week time frame.

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