Wife of the
traditional ruler of Abba - Igogoro in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area of
Enugu State, Igwe Omale Nwogbo, Adiza, has been kidnapped by unknown persons
who invaded her home last week.
The woman was kidnapped few days after some armed men
invaded the palace and inflicted machete cuts on her husband before shooting at
three other persons with him in his palace at about 8pm.
According to police sources, the traditional ruler was
meeting with some people in his Igogoro palace when the gunmen struck and
reportedly shot one Joshua Urama at the back while Igwe Ogbo himself, Emmanuel
Tobechukwu Idoko and Sunday Ogbo sustained injuries on their heads and faces.
Igwe Ogbo was said to have been reportedly given three machete cuts on his head.
The attack took place at a time members of the ruling
People's Democratic Party, PDP, in the local government were holding the Ward
Congress at Enugu Ezike to elect delegates for last Saturday's local government
congress to elect chairmanship candidates for the local government election
slated later in the year.
Igwe Nwogbo and the other victims who sustained serious
bullet wounds, were later rushed to the Bishop Shanahan Hospital Annex in Enugu
Ezike, the council headquarters for urgent medical attention.
However, Adiza, 85, was abducted by some people who
reportedly claimed to have come from the neighbouring Isugwu community, exactly
four days after her husband was attacked in his palace.
The police were still trying the unravel the reasons behind
the attack on Igwe Ogbo when his wife was abducted.
Adiza's son and former Commissioner for Local Government
and Chieftaincy Matters in the state, Prince Goddy Ogbo confirmed in a
telephone interview with Saturday Vanguard yesterday that his aged mother was
abducted by unknown persons who invaded his father's palace on motorcycles.
According to him, his old mother was forcefully taken away
on one of the motorcycles as she shouted, "blood of Jesus; blood of Jesus
about two weeks ago."
The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in
EnuguState, Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the incident yesterday, but stressed
that he had no details of Adiza's abduction, even as Prince Ogbo said that his
family had not established any contacts with the abductors since the incident.
