Odogwu Emeka Odogwu
4 November 2009
Awka — Anambra State police command yesterday said it was yet to establish a clue as to the whereabouts of Pa Simeon Soludo, father of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, seven days after he was kidnapped.
Commissioner of Police, Philemon Leha who lamented the inability of the police to find him, however gave a matching order to the over 177 heads of vigilante groups in the state to fish out the kidnappers or risk their recognition withdrawn.
Addressing the security leaders at a forum in Awka, he charged them to provide the police with information that could enable it track down the kidnappers.
He said: "We don't know where Pa Soludo is. It is only a native of Isuofia that would know the road. The kidnap was done by the Isuofia people not outsiders. The kidnappers are very wise, they are not staying at a location and they change their mobile lines regularly. So we can't trace them. We need information from you the vigilante members. We are here to partner and collaborate in putting a stop to this nonsense that is going on. I want you to give us solid credible information not only about the kidnappers but the criminals because you know all of them."
He requested for a serious police partnership with the groups to make Anambra State safe during the up-coming festive periods, so that the indigenes can return home and celebrate rather than run away to other places.
He advised them not to play politics with their job but to be neutral so as to avoid any clash with the police.
Daily Champion gathered that Soludo is yet to report to the police after being invited over the kidnap of his father.
Meanwhile, as the political crisis in Anambra State deepens, a notable politician from the state, Mike Nkwocha, has advised the police to go beyond inviting a select number of politicians for questioning.
Nkwocha, in a press statement in Abuja yesterday, challenged the police to go beyond inviting politicians in the state for questioning but instead investigate the actual motives of those who must have carried out the despicable act.
He said knowing the motives of the perpetrators of the crime will in great way assist the police to know the caliber of persons who organized it.
He said focusing on particular politicians in the state could be diversionary, as that may not help in unmasking the culprits.
"Focusing on Chief Chris Uba and other politicians in the state is a diversion from the real business of unmasking the perpetrators of this crime; the police should go beyond this level and begin to look at the real motives of the kidnappers which may not really be political, but economic or even social."
He said there could be some agent provocateurs in Soludo's Campaign Organization (SCO) who may want to use the kidnap saga to cause confusion in the state.
Nkwocha then advised politicians in Anambra State to play the game according to the rules as only one person will govern the state at a particular time.
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