KINGSLEY EBERE
The kidnappers, who abducted three members of staff of Innoson Motors from his motorcycle showroom in Nnewi Town, Anambra State, may now be in a dilemma on what to do with the victims after Innoson boss, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, snubbed them over demand of N150m ransom for the release of the staff.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the victims were kidnapped and kept in captivity in an unknown place after they struck last week Tuesday at Innoson motorcycles’ showroom along the Owerri Road, Nnewi in Anambra State.
However, the Innoson Motors boss, Chief Chukwuma was said to have snubbed the kidnappers and made it clear that he will not pay a dime for the release of the victims because it will encourage the kidnappers to continue to kidnap his workers.
The feeling is that the decision may discourage kidnappers from kidnapping Innoson Motors workers in future because it will be a waste of time to venture.
According to sources, the kidnappers had been calling the families of the victims asking them to call the Innoson boss to pay ransom, but they were told that Innoson Motors boss said he will not give them a dime and it was better for them to release the victims and look elsewhere to make money.
It was said that they may be begging the Innoson Motors boss to pay the ransom as they may have invested huge sums of money during the operation. It was not certain if Chief Chukwuma will change his mind and pay any ransom following his adamant position.
Meanwhile, the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed in a statement in Awka, the state capital, that the Anambra Joint Security Forces are on the offensive for possible rescue of the three abducted victims and arrest the abductors.
He said that the abduction took place around 6:45 pm at Innoson motorcycles’ showroom along the Owerri Road, Nnewi. According to him, the Police Command will work with information obtained from the scene in the ongoing rescue operations.
So far, no arrest has been made and the victims are still in captivity.
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This case is quite simple to resolve without paying a dime to the so-called kidnappers. It is so glaringly obvious that Nigeria security, innoson motors staff etc, are involved in this type of what I call unintelligent way to defraud Innoson motors in Nnewi town. Innoson boss is wise enough to have publicly declared he will never pay a dime to them, and may I further suggest that he also decide secretly in his heart to give the families of the kidnapped victims the millions in the event that the victims are killed, instead of paying the ransom; he can even make this secrecy public to align in wisdom with the great biblical wisdom of King Solomon, where the evil mother opted to have the baby in contention sliced in half: the kidnappers won't go for killing the victims because they are the victims themselves in this case, hence the begging in their tone in their public demand for ransom payments
kidnapers must free their victims and obey him before ndigbo get angry.