There is palpable tension in Enugu State as Nigerian soldiers reportedly aiding kidnappers in the state allegedly opened fire on members of the State Neighborhood Watch fighting the kidnappers. Two people were killed including the wife of one of them while four others were injured. SaharaReporters gathered that the incident happened around 9 pm on Thursday night along 9th Mile -Eke- Ezeagu Road.
Nigerian Soldiers Allegedly Aiding Kidnappers In Enugu Community Shoot At Vigilantes Responding To Distress Call, Kill TwoTwo people were killed including the wife of one of them while four others were injured.
During the protest, the drivers were seen carrying placards with various inscriptions to express their grievances against the abductions. Eke community is the country home of the Director General of Voice of Nigeria , Mr Osita Okechukwu, immediate past Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress , Mr Godwin Onwusi, who ran for the Udi North State Constituency in the 2023 general elections among others.
According to him, they were at 9th Mile Corner on Thursday night where they had gone to felicitate with their colleagues who were being inaugurated as Neighbourhood Watch members when they"got a distress call that armed robbers had blocked the major road leading to the Catholic Church Pilgrimage Centre, popularly known as Ugwudinso in Eke through Ama breweries”.
"We obeyed the instruction and stopped. I shouted that we are members of the State Neighborhood Vigilante Watch from the area. Thereafter, they asked us to keep coming," Anigbo stated. He further narrated, “The same soldier kept on marching me on the chest with his boot, saying, 'I will kill you today'. In fact, it was the timely arrival of police operatives from 9th Mile Conner that saved my life. It was the police that stopped the soldier, confirming that we are Eke Neighborhood Security Guards."
In separate interviews, they described the incident as proof that the Nigerian Army had been aiding kidnappers in Enugu State and in other parts of the Southeast region. The source, however, revealed that a few weeks ago, some soldiers quarrelled with the same neighbourhood watch team for rescuing a kidnapped victim before the ransom was paid.
He, however, admitted that a woman was killed by what he described as a"strange bullet from armed hoodlums," whom he said engaged the soldiers in a shootout.
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