The victim, Mrs. Patricia Emenike, was kidnapped on January 10, 2013, by gunmen in a Toyota Camry as she was returning from the market.
It was the second time Madam
Emenike was kidnapped. In 2011, the septuagenarian was also kidnapped
and released after the family paid ransom that ran into millions of
naira.
Her industrialist son, Emenike, who is the chairman and chief executive of Kotec Group, manufacturers of motorcycle parts and makers of tommy tommy noodles, told reporters in Nnewi yesterday that the kidnappers established contact with the family some days ago and demanded N70million.
He said, however, that negotiations were ongoing.
According to him, the family is worried because the woman is diabetic and hypertensive. He added that three days after his mother was kidnapped, she told him on phone from the kidnappers’ custody that she was not being fed.
Emenike said: “We have not even gone for thanksgiving after her abduction and release in 2011 because of her ill-health. Now they have abducted her again and we are worried because of her health condition.”
He said the incident had since been reported at Uruala police station and office of Imo State Commissioner of Police, stating that the police had made a firm promise to track down his mother’s abductors.
Her industrialist son, Emenike, who is the chairman and chief executive of Kotec Group, manufacturers of motorcycle parts and makers of tommy tommy noodles, told reporters in Nnewi yesterday that the kidnappers established contact with the family some days ago and demanded N70million.
He said, however, that negotiations were ongoing.
According to him, the family is worried because the woman is diabetic and hypertensive. He added that three days after his mother was kidnapped, she told him on phone from the kidnappers’ custody that she was not being fed.
Emenike said: “We have not even gone for thanksgiving after her abduction and release in 2011 because of her ill-health. Now they have abducted her again and we are worried because of her health condition.”
He said the incident had since been reported at Uruala police station and office of Imo State Commissioner of Police, stating that the police had made a firm promise to track down his mother’s abductors.
