Nigeria: Kidnapping - How My Abductors Planned the Awka Bank Robbery

26 August 2009

Awka — Chief Godwin Okeke, chairman of G.U.O Group of Companies who was kidnapped on Sunday and released by his captors on Monday evening has said that it was the same people who kidnapped him that robbed a bank in Awka on Monday during which two people were feared dead and property worth millions of naira destroyed during their confrontation with the police.

Speaking with newsmen in Onitsha yesterday, Okeke who had bandages on his left leg and hand apparently as a result of injuries he sustained while struggling with his captors, said that his abductors planned the bank robbery operation while he was in their custody.

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