Two Junior Secondary School (JSS) III pupils of the Federal Government College, Okposi, in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Tochukwu Eneh and Chukwuemeka Ugwu, were abducted and found dead on Monday May 23. The teenagers were last seen on May 12. Tochukwu is from Obioma while Chukwuemeka hails from Nsude, both in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. The boys were reportedly abducted from their school that Thursday. A family source said the pupils, who had just finished their final examinations that same day, were preparing to go home the next day when they were snatched. It was learnt that a group of schoolboys, including the duo, decided to get hair cut outside the school. They were said to be returning to the school when they were accosted by suspected kidnappers, who ordered them to stop. The teenagers reportedly ran towards different directions but their assailants were said to have caught up with them and carried them away. It was gathered that the other pupils, except the two, returned to school. But the boys were said to have been frightened beyond raising the alarm. The incident was said to have remained unreported until the following day (May 13) when Tochukwu’s guardian did not see him as they had agreed. The guardian, said to be a lady and a worker at the college, reportedly had some items she wanted Tochukwu to take to his mum in Enugu. When she learnt about what happened, the lady was said to have notified the school authorities and the parents of the victims. In a statement, the police spokesman, ASP George Okafor, said that following the report made to the police, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Peace Ibekwe Abdallah, led other senior police officers with the SARS team on ground for on the spot operational assessment and rescue of the missing students. The PPRO disclosed that the dead bodies were discovered at a bamboo grove in ATA River, about half a kilometre from the college premises. According to him, the discovery was sequel to information received while interacting with the entire community leaders, youths and other stakeholders of the area. He added that in response to the information, the Command combined teams discovered the decomposing corpses of the two missing students whose parents were on hand to identify them. However, the bodies of the two students were evacuated and deposited in the morgue for autopsy. R.I.P

I hope they are not kidnapped by herdsmen. Waiting for the governor to declare another round of fasting.