In furtherance of the fight against insecurity in Anambra State, security agents in the state have rescued two kidnap victims in less than 24 hours after their abduction.
The victims were said to have been abducted on gunpoint on Tuesday by a three-man gang of heavily-armed men operating in a Honda Pilot.
It was gathered that the kidnappers stormed the Abatete—Alor—Ogidi road on Tuesday evening and started operation immediately, during which they abducted two men, Engr. Emeka Joseph Ezeigwe (male, aged 64) and Dr. Peter Ifeanyichukwu Okafor (male, aged 45) and zoomed off immediately to an unknown destination, in one of the victim’s vehicle, alongside their own operational vehicle.
On getting the information therefore, the security agents quickly mobilised for a rescue mission, tracking the abductees all through night, and after which they eventually rescued them in a bush in Ojoto, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state, at about 5.am on Wednesday
Narrating their ordeals in Awka, the rescued victims explained that their abductors abandoned them blindfolded in a vehicle right inside in the bush when they sensed that they were being closely tracked by security operatives, and therefore took cover to lay an ambush.
One of the victims, Engr. Ezeigwe, a retired civil servant from Abatete in Idemili North said he went to pick his wife from her shop at about 6.pm on Tuesday and was waiting for her to finish up before someone immediately alighted from a vehicle and pointed gun at him right inside his vehicle, Lexus 330 RX, ordering him to step down from the vehicle.
Engr. Ezeigwe further revealed that it was when the abductors abandoned them in his vehicle right inside the bush to go lay an ambush against the perceived security threat, that they escaped from the vehicle. He also explained how they established contact with the security operatives from inside the thick forest who sleeplessly worked all through the night until they eventually rescued then in the early hours of Wednesday.
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