Umahi denies treating 2021 missing NELAN Engineers with kid gloves

Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, connected Monday denied treating the contented of 5 missing NELAN engineers, who person been missing since November 3, 2021, with kid gloves.

Umahi was the Governor of Ebonyi State erstwhile the incidental occurred.

He said the engineers were victims of the communal warfare betwixt the radical of Effium and Ezza-Effium successful Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, which claimed thousands of lives and destroyed spot worthy billions of naira.

The 5 missing engineers were constructing a roadworthy successful the assemblage for the authorities authorities during the warfare erstwhile they were declared missing and person not been seen since.

On Monday, immoderate persons identified arsenic household members and sympathizers of the missing NELAN engineers staged a protestation successful Abuja, the nation’s capital, demanding justness for their deaths.

Reacting to the protest, the Minister said the engineers were not singled retired successful isolation. According to him, they were victims of a wider struggle that tragically claimed galore lives during the Effium/Ezza-Effium warfare period.

In a connection signed by his Senior Special Assistant connected Media, Francis Nwaze, Umahi, who sympathized with the families of the missing engineers, explained that instantly accusation astir their disappearance reached him, helium swiftly mobilized information agencies and launched intensive hunt and investigative efforts to deter...