Former Enugu SSG, kidnapped along with many others
On Thursday, Former Secretary to the Enugu State Government, Dr. Dan Shere was kidnapped along Enugu-Ugwuogo, Nike-Nsukka Road, Enugu State.
It was gathered that Shere a medical doctor, who served under the administration of former Governor, Chimaroke Nnamani was not the only as several others that were kidnapped.
Recall that several kidnapping incident has been going on along Enugu-Ugwuogo, Nike-Nsukka road.
It was also learnt from a source that Shere was travelling to Nsukka for a meeting when the gunmen attacked him alongside other travellers.
One of the survivors, who shared a video of the attack, said the gunmen were about eight in number.
“They shot severally at our vehicle; one of us was hit by the bullets. But our driver managed to move on. We succeeded in taking the victim to the hospital,” he narrated while thanking God for saving him and four others from the same community.
Meanwhile, it was gathered that the kidnappers, who are said to be Fulani herdsmen, have increased their ransom demand on those they earlier picked on Sunday.
“They earlier demanded the sum of N2m on one of the victims but they have now increased it to N30m. They search the phones of the victims to know their status,” the source said.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Enugu State Police Command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe did not respond to the calls and messages sent to him as of the time of filing this report.
(Vanguard)
