Kidnappings: NUJ wants more protection for monarchs

AWKA – THE Anambra State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has condemned the increasing kidnap cases especially affecting traditional rulers in the state and called on security operatives to provide adequate security for the royal fathers.
Four traditional rulers in the state had, in the last three years, become victims of kidnappers, the latest being the kidnap of the traditional ruler of Ukpo in Dunukofia Local Government Area, Igwe Robert Eze last week.

Two of them kidnapped last year; the traditional ruler of Ihembosi and the traditional ruler of Adazi Nnukwu, are still missing and there are fears they may have been killed.
Worried by the development, the NUJ, at its congress in Awka said that the painful thing about the kidnappings was that they all happened at the palaces of the affected traditional rulers.
A statement issued at the end of the congress by the chairman, Mrs. Tochukwu Omelu and assistant secretary, Miss Ify Anumba observed that the assault on the royal fathers had become a threat on the traditional institution and an affront on the Igbo culture.