Gunmen suspected to be
kidnappers have allegedly murdered an Owerri-based businessman, Amaechi
Ahanonu, after collecting N500, 000 as ransom from his family.
The suspected kidnappers had on Monday morning,
stormed the Ahanonu’s house in Amato Orogwe in the Owerri West Local Government
Area of Imo State and whisked him away.
Punch learnt that the gunmen, who were armed,
arrived the residence of the businessman and abducted him after shooting
sporadically into the air.
It was learnt that the
kidnap victim was relaxing with his family members as of the time he was taken
away.
The gunmen, it was gathered, later established
contacts with the family of the victim and demanded N10m as ransom.
His family, however, could only raise N500, 000
before the abductors allegedly murdered him.
The amount provided by his family was said to
have provoked his abductors, who allegedly killed him and dropped his corpse on
a bush path along Ndegwu/Orogwe Road in Owerri West Local Government Area of
the state.
“We found his lifeless body this morning
(Friday) along Ndegwu /Orogwe Road, but this was after the family had taken the
sum of N500, 000 to the Okuku forest where they held him hostage. This is very
absurd,” he said.
-Punch
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