Obi calls on the government and the relevant security agencies to leave no stone unturned in seeing to the release of the kidnapped nuns.
By Emma Ogbuehi
Former Anambra state governor, Peter Obi has condemned the recent kidnap of three Benedictine Nuns from their monastery in Kogi State, calling on government and security agencies to ensure that the nuns are rescued and the kidnappers brought to book.
In a Statement from his Media Office, Obi described the kidnap of the nuns as a clear reminder of how bold criminality has become in the country.
“It is disheartening how our nation has continued to descend to abysmal levels of insecurity. Attacking innocent people in their homes and taking them hostage for ransom is a culture we must not allow to flourish in our nation,” Obi stated.
He lamented the heightened menace of insecurity and criminality in different parts of the country, and bemoaned the cost effect of this alarming level of insecurity on development in the country.
The former governor called on the government and the relevant security agencies to leave no stone unturned in seeing to the safe release of the kidnapped nuns, in addition to ensuring the utmost security of lives and property in the country.
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The Benedictine nuns from the monastery of Kogi, were kidnapped from their monastery recently. Latest reports indicated that the kidnappers called the monastery and requested for N20,000,000.00 (twenty million Naira), which is about 33,000.00 Euro (thirty three thousand Euro).
The sisters pleaded that they did not have that amount, that they were poor and lived on charity. So the kidnappers removed one million making it 19,000,000.00 Naira. The sisters told them they would give them 100,000.00 Naira (One Hundred Thousand Naira).
The kidnappers told them to keep that money for the burial of the three sisters. But after much pleading they requested that the sisters should come with what they had and meet them at a particular spot in the forest.
However, when the sisters got there with N300,000.00 (Three Hundred Thousand Naira), the kidnappers asked them on the phone how much they came with and the sisters said N300,000.00. The kidnappers would not listen to them.
Undeterred, the sisters pleaded with them for hours, until the kidnappers cut the call.