Another dangerous dimension has been employed by gunmen who has turned kidnapping and hostage-taking a blissful industry as the dead bodies of victims are released after collecting huge sum of ransome.
A week after the corpse of an abducted hotelier from Oguta was found despite N2.5m ransome paid, another prominent citizen of Imo state and a two-time lawmaker who represented Obowo State Constituency seat in the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon Dan Nwagwu has been killed and his dead body dropped on the road after the family paid his abductors N5m (Five million naira) ransome.
Late Nwagwu former Majority Leader during the era of Achike Udenwa was kidnapped this January by yet-to-be apprehended kidnappers in Umuahia, Abia State. Negotiations between his family and captors led to the payment of N5m ransome. After the payment, nothing was heard again from the kidnappers as the remained in commando furling suspicious that the fair-skinned Nwagwu who was in ACN during the 2010 election have been killed. However, the dead body of the deceased Nwagwu from Umungwa-Obowo was found on the Enugu-Aba Express road.
Efforts to get any of the family members to speak on the matter proved abortive as they are still in shock to comment on the matter.
