Female farmer, tricycle operator rescued from kidnappers in Umuahia 

Community youths successful Umuawa Alaocha, Umuahia North LGA of Abia State, person stormed the wood successful the assemblage to rescue 2 kidnapped indigenes of Ohuhu, Mr. Dennis Izuchukwu and Mrs. Onyinyechi Ekechukwu, who were earlier abducted by suspected herdsmen connected Wednesday.

Dennis, a tricycle operator, and Mrs. Onyinyechi Ekechukwu, a farmer, were abducted astatine astir 5:00 p.m. connected Wednesday, prompting youths from Umuawa Alaocha and neighbouring villages to motorboat a hunt for them.

The hunt efforts yet yielded results astatine midnight erstwhile the victims were rescued from captivity aft suffering varying degrees of injuries.

Speaking from his infirmary furniture aft his rescue, Mr. Dennis Izuchukwu said the incidental occurred erstwhile Mrs. Onyinyechi Ekechukwu engaged his services to assistance transport cassava she had harvested from her workplace successful Umuawa Alaocha.

According to Izuchukwu, portion they were returning from the farm, they encountered astir six suspected herdsmen. He added that 1 of the men abruptly emerged from the bush carrying a gun.

“I initially thought it was a joke, but earlier I knew it, others came retired from antithetic directions and surrounded us,” Izuchukwu said.

He recalled that the kidnappers allegedly dragged them done a constrictive way heavy into the forest, wherever the equipped men...