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Speaker 1: Anambra is no doubt one of the states in Nigeria

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experiencing incessant and very high rates of kidnapping that in

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some cases do lead to the death of the abducted

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victims and killing of security operatives and some other persons

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around the scene of the mostly monetary crimes of hostage

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taking for a ransom. Specifically, our crime reporters gathered that

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there is hardly no week without one or two persons

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being kidnapped along the Anisio, a wary federal road in

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a Nambra State, especially between Over community and Ihiala town.

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As we gathered that most victims of kidnapping in the

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state are hard working small and medium sized business owners

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who most of whom struggled out of poverty to become

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wealthy successful traders. This we learnt there may be no

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wealthy successful business owner along the Ihiala or who road

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left to be kidnapped or forced to pay ransom to

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the kidnappers. While in ober wealthy people are being kidnapped

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quietly in ransom in millions are paid in silence to

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the kids. According to members of the community, a young

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successful businessman was kidnapped recently at a location between the

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ober New Road and Old Road junctions shortly after he

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visited his building construction site. While we also learned that

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some people in the state to report or contract their

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friends to kidnappers just to get a share from the

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ransom that will be paid afterwards or when such people

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have issued or dispute with their friends or co traders.

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It may interest you to know that the Enambra State

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Police Command recently arrested a twenty four year old male

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suspect muana Ye Victor for allegedly luring his friend to

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be kidnapped by his criminal gang Innuli Ihiala Local government

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area of the state, and they reportedly collected a ransom

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in dollars equivalent to five point three million narers with

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his gang members, just as government in a not too

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long distance time abducted a lawyer and two other persons

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in in polgu Aguata Local Government area of Anambra, in

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addition to the previous cases of kidnapping of the owner

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of De Porsche Club, Chief Phoebea Org by unknown gunmen

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after the gunmen killed numbers of persons along the New

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ober Newi Road in Idomili South Local government area of

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a Nambra State, with the number of those killed at

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the Porsha nightclubs said to be seven, but one of

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the security operatives was beheaded and another had his foot

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cut off and made away by the invading deadly kidnappers.

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This occurred shortly after a well known native doctor or

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which doctor chidos in nawangu Aka Aqua Okako Timuaaki, was

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kidnapped after his two personal aids killed in the vicinity

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of his hotel at ober community before the kidnappers effortlessly

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took him away and was released after ransom in millions

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were reportedly paid, that not all. On May twenty first,

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twenty twenty two, shortly after Professor Chukuma Saludo was sworn

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in as governor, Gunman abducted the lawmaker representing Aguata to

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constituency in the State House of Assembly, oak Chakua Koye

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a Koye also known as Oki Dioke represented Soludo’s state

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constituency Isoophia. A Koye was killed and beheaded alongside his aid,

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Cyril chi Egboka, six days after they were abducted along

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Aguilar Zigbo Road, Anaroka local government area of the state,

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and their heads and bodies dumped along a roadside in

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the state and in December twenty twenty four, another lawmaker

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in the state House of Assembly was Kidgana. Minister of

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Defense Edward Omain Bohmer, alongside seven other top government officials

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and military personnel, have been confirmed dead after Ghana Armed

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Forces in a statement on Wednesday, had declared the Zen

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nine military helicopter missing, stating the helicopter, traveling from the

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nation capital in a krat Obuasi in a shanty region,

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went off from radar at nine to twelve a m

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with three crew members and five passengers on board. Others

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killed in the helicopter crash, as confirmed by the Office

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of the President of Ghana include doctor al Haji Mattala Mohammad,

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MP for Tamali, Central Minister for Environment, Science and Technology,

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Alhaji Munaru Mahammad, Acting Deputy National Security Coordinator, doctor Samuel Sarpan,

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Vice Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Abboagier, former parliamentary candidate,

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Squadron Leader Peter Bafemi, Anila flying officer to Amampadou, and

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Sergeant ernest Ado Mensa. It was gathered that the military

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helicopter went down at a dancy Acro from in the

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Ashanti region on Wednesday for yet to be stated cause

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of the incident, as video footage showed the burnt beyond

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recognition bodies of those on board the aircraft. The aircraft

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was from ACCR and heading for Abousi and is currently

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off the radar. All efforts of being made to establish contact.

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The Ganer Armed Forces had stated in a statement earlier

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on Wednesday. The Government of Ghana has directed the all

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national flags be flown at half mast in honour of

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the late government top officials Edward Omein Bohma, Minister for

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Defense and Ibrahem Mattalamahammad, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation,

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among others, who died in the military helicopter crash. According

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to local media, the fatal incident occurred on Wednesday, August

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six in the Adansi Hakrofum district of the Ashanti Region,

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while the two ministers along with six others were en

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route to Habuasi for official duties. Announcing the directive, Chief

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of Staff Julius Demra expressed the government’s deep sorrow regarding

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the loss of the two senior public officials and others

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on board the helicopter. The President is emotionally down. The

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Vice President is leading a team to formally inform the families.

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Education Minister Pruna Idrasu told news reporters following the tragic

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helicopter crash that claimed the lives of top government officials,

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including the Defense and Environment ministers, while announcing the death

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of the all passengers and crew members on board, The

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Ghana Chief of Staff Julius Deborah said on behalf of

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the President of the Republic, his Excellency John Dramani Mahamma,

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the Vice President, Professor Nanna Jama Poku Agumang, who is

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with us here and the Government of Ghana, I have

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the unpleasant duty sadly to renounce a national tragedy involving

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the crash of a military helicopter this morning around the

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Adancy area in the Ashanti Region. Government regrets to announce

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the demise of the following persons in the tragic crash.

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Doctor Edward Kofi Omain Boehmer Minister for Defense, Al Haji

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Doctor Ibrahim Mattala Mohammad, m P Minister for Environment, Science

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and Technology. Al Haji Munaru Mohammad, Acting Deputy National Security

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Coordinator and former Minister for Food and agriculture doctor Samuel Sarpong,

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vice chairman of the National Democratic A Nambra State government

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under the leadership of Governor Charles Chukuma Sludo, has said

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that the state is currently in search of justice over

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the killing of a young and creative fish farmer, Martin’s

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of Fessenachi on Ye kc well known by his business

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name as Fish Magnet, who was reportedly shot on the

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leg while being kidnapped on Sunday, the twenty seventh of

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July twenty twenty five at his residence in Zini Fitte Village,

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a Puno in Orca, the Enambra State capital. This Dr

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George Mogalu, the Labour Party candidate in the forthcoming governorship

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election in the state, said that an Ambra State is

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no longer safe, adding that people are being killed, sloughted

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for their families to bury in silence, while the state governor,

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Professor Charles Chukuma Saludo looks the other way with no sympathy, condolence,

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visit or statement. Specifically, Moglou said, I must speak frankly,

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an amber is no longer safe, not even in the

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state capital are people are being slaughted, kidnapped and buried

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in silence while the government looks the other way. This

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is not leadership, it is abandonment. Just recently, we lost

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over ten lives in a ghastly accident at Amchi no

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We South local government area. Yet there was no statement,

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no condolence, not even a visit from the state government.

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Instead we see street renamings and political endorsement rallies. Where

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is our conscience, Mogolu stated, while the former lawyer to

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Namdi Cardu, the detained Biafra agitation leader, Barrister afangy g four,

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said the people of the state are currently romancing with crimes,

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hiding criminals and painting absurd narratives on social media to

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glorify and justify the rising crimes in the state, saying

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the most frightening part the reckless energy our own people

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expend defending these killers. When you shield murderers because they

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are your kinsmen, you embolden them. When you justify kidnappings

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under the guise of ethnic pride, you leave the gates

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wide open for the real external aggresses like armed herdsman,

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whose invasion will come when we are weakest and most divided.

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A Nambra’s State Commissioner for Information Law Mepha made the

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government position known on Sunday after he led other government

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officials on a condolence visit to the bereaved mother of

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the victim, who happened to be the woman leader of

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the Enambra’s State All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA missus ester

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on Ya KC. According to Punch newspaper, Honyaka, a son

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of the woman leader of the Enambra State All Progressives

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Grand Alliance, was abducted by government and his residence in

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Zenophied Community, Opuno Orca South Local Government area of Enamra State,

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in a late night attack on Saturday, July twenty sixth,

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and was subsequently killed. In a press statement released on Sunday,

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the State Commissioner for Information Law Mephor sympathized with the

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deceaseds family, assuring them that the state government is in

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search of justice while sustaining and strengthening security in the state. Meffer,

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who maintained that such a development is an affront to

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the Professor Chokuma Soludo government’s new security architecture, also expressed

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delight that the police are on the heels of the perpetrators.

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The Commissioner was quoted as having stated this when he

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paid a condolence visit to the woman leader of the

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Enambra’s State apger hester Onyekesi, according to the statement. The

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statement read in part the Enambra State Commissioner Gingi Bini

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in mogal