A former Anambra State House of Assembly member, Sylvester Okeke, being kidnapped.
Okeke was said to have been kidnapped alongside another person, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, close to a military checkpoint along the Ring Road in Awka, the state capital.
It was gathered that the lawmaker, who had been missing since Friday, was returning from a town union meeting when the incident happened.
According to a family source, the kidnappers have called the former legislator’s family members and demanded ransom.
Another source in the ex-legislator’s Agulu hometown in Anaocha Local Government Area of the state told journalists that the family members of the former lawmaker were handling the issue secretly so as not to make any public statement that could jeopardise the chances of negotiating his freedom.
You will recall that the INEC chair professor Mahmud yakubu, had expressed fears that the 2023 election cannot be ascertained because of the current security situation in the south east and North west.
