Former Chairman of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Aguata branch, Chief Clifford Okoye says a social media report that eight persons were kidnapped and few others injured in Amakor village, Nanka, Orumba North Council Area, Anambra State is false.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that Chief Okoye who is the legal adviser to Nanka Patriotic Union (NPU), in an interview with journalists said such an incident did not happen in the area.
The legal adviser described the report as misleading, mischievous, dangerous and a deliberate attempt to portray the town as unsafe capable of dissuading the indigenes of the community in diaspora from returning home to celebrate the oncoming new yam festival taking place soon in the town.
The lawyer said such news was evil and capable of causing tension in the town as well as in Anambra State, adding that its originators were enemies of peace.
Okoye narrated that what actually took place on that day was that the police came to the village to effect an arrest of an indigene of Amakor village.
He said the suspect had been floating a splinter group under the umbrella of Amakor Njikoka Development Union against the recognized executive body in the village despite several letters of warning to desist from the act by the Anambra State government.
The legal adviser disclosed that the suspect together with three others were summoned by the police from Abuja headquarters.
“The kidnap news is fake, evil, condemnable. My town Nanka is peaceful. Security of the town is well knitted.
“Everybody is going about their businesses without fear of molestation, we are safe and I am appealing to our people to disregard such news and prepare for our oncoming new yam festival as all is well, “Okoye concluded.
