www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/sept/28/national-28-09-2010-001.htm someone should pls post the full story, I'm on mobile right now.

15 pupils kidnapped in Aba
•Demand N20m ransom
From PETER OFFOR, Aba
Tuesday, September 28, 2010


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Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Monday morning hijacked a school bus conveying 15 pupils of Abayi International School, Osisioma, near Aba to their school and took them to an unknown destination. Daily Sun gathered that the driver of the school bus had gone out that morning to designated points as was the schedule to pick the pupils to school.

On getting to a spot at Ekeakpara, it was learnt that a Toyota Camry saloon car waylaid the school bus and ordered the driver at gunpoint to stop. It was also gathered that as the driver came down, the hoodlums collected his mobile phone set and ordered him to lie face down while they drove off with the pupils towards Etche in Rivers State.

Investigations revealed that most of the kidnapped school children were nursery and primary school pupils.
The kidnappers were said to have demanded N20 million ransom for the release of the kids.

When Daily Sun visited the school located in the outskirts of Aba, teachers and some parents of the abducted kids were seen in groups discussing the fate of the children even as one of them appealed to the abductors to release the children without further delay considering their tender ages.
When contacted, the principal of the school who would not disclose his name for fear of being attacked, although confirmed the incident, refused to give further details.

He said it was only the manager that could speak on the issue. But the manager said the matter was too sensitive to be discussed now. She, however, promised to speak after the release of the children.
Some people who spoke with Daily Sun condemned the high rate of kidnapping in the city.
While calling on the kidnappers to take the ages of the children into consideration and release them immediately, they called on government to do something urgent to arrest the situation.

Abia State Government had last week given kidnappers in the state a two-week ultimatum to surrender their weapons and be rehabilitated by government in an amnesty programme that appeared to mean nothing to some of the hoodlums. Since the ultimatum was issued, no day had passed without a reported case of kidnapping or violent crime in the commercial city.
In another incident, gunmen last Saturday killed two policemen at Umuafor Ukwu in Obingwa Local Government Area (where four journalists and their driver were kidnapped sometime ago). The policemen were said to be on patrol when they ran into the gunmen who opened fire, killing two of them instantly and reportedly burnt their Hilux van.

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Only GOd can save us all.

its been rumoured that all schools are closing down for a week.as at the time of the incident,schools where shot down and pupils where sent home before noon, HORRIBLE!!!

That shows the level of corruption in our country Nigeria.

But really, why don't we call in the federal troops? Is the state Governor this insensitive?

And the governor is yet to resign

This is bad!!
Why, oh why should this be?

meanwhile, the police in aba have take the former deputy governor who is declaring for ppa for questioning

apparently after the man defected they suddenly became aware that he has ties to the kidnapping rings

sick bastards using the mess they have created to play politics

There is something seriously wrong with that aba axis.Anyway these problems have been brewing for as long as i can remember since 80s.

And the Governor still exist.

Seun bring this thread to the home page.The whole world needs to know what is happening in Aba.The state govt has bribed media houses not to report kidnap n robbery incidences taking place in d state.

This is becoming another thing.

I've been listening to Broadcasting Corp of Abia,Pasecetter FM umuahia and NTA Umuahia non of them has reported these crimes taking place in d state.

OMG! This is sickening.

Is the federal Government not part of the kidnappers?

Echidime:

Is the federal Government not part of the kidnappers?

How ?

Sky News has this as breaking News

Ahhhhh. . . . . Industrious sons of Biafra! And these are the same folks that think that having their own country is the end to their problems. . . . . .

Wow, I think they should start kidnapping government houses.

You know like tie a government house to a rope and drag it to a secure spot.
They will get their ransom faster.
Id.iots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry oh, correct me if i m wrong, but is it not this Abia state Governor that they pictured swearing an oath of allegiance to someone or something naked

What a hell!!

CNN flashing it as breaking news. Pathetic.

aba = mexico  

Just saw this on CNN, Horribly terrible

Kandahar + Fagullah + Mogadishu = Aba

I think police and vigilante groups should be banished from Abia state and soldiers should permanently be stationed there until the policing system is decentralized and upgraded with supreme strategic organization.

13volts:

Kandahar + Fagullah + Mogadishu = Aba

Fallujah. . . . . .