500 Chinese Engineers To Leave Nigeria, If…

More than 500 Chinese working as engineers and technicians in Innoson Motor Assembly Plant at Nnewi Anambra State, and flat sheet plant Emene industrial Layout, Enugu, Enugu State, have threatened to leave Nigeria emasse if the suspects apprehended by men of the Anambra state police over their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and killing of their brother, Mr. Feng Shyenyi are not made to face the full weight of  the law.

The Chinese who made their feelings known while speaking to newsmen at the office of the Centre for Victims of Extra-Judicial Killings and Torture (CVEKT Africa) Enugu, regretted that between 2007 and now, some of the people directly and indirectly involved in the kidnapping and killing of the Chinese are still walking the streets as free men.

A spokeman of the Chinese, Mr Tang Tao told journalists that their planned exodus from Nigeria would crumble the N250 million Innoson Motor Assembly plant at Nnewi, which would result in loss of 300 plant jobs. Tao said that the planned exodus of Chinese would no in small measures worsen the already bad economy of the state and the federal government.

He therefore called on both  the Enugu and Anambra State governments,  the federal government and the Attorney-General of  the federation to ensure that all those involved in the kidnapping and  killing of their colleagues and brother, Mr Shyenyi, are brought  to book to serve as deterrent  to others.

This, Tao reasoned, is the only sure way of assuring them of their safety in Nigeria, describing the kidnapping and subsequent killing of their brother as “very unfortunate”.

Speaking to newsmen later, the Executive Director, Centre for Victims of Extra-Judicial killings and Torture (CVEKT Africa), Rev. Fr. Tony Amarube, described May 29, this year, as a “watershed” in the kidnap saga.

According to him: ”On this day, exactly, two years and two months after the kidnap event, the  leader of the gang, Innocent Orji, alias “General” was apprehended by the Anambra State police and he has confirmed  the death and burial  of the second Chinese whose corpse has recently been exhumed and recovered by police.”

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