Kidnappers Free Amaechi’s Aide

Deputy Chief Press Secretary, to Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi’s  kidnapped by gunmen eight days ago, has been released by his captors.
Mr. Freddy Ndigbara,  was kidnapped in his community, Kaani in Khana Local Government Area last Saturday while preparing for the All Progressives Congress ward rally.
The kidnappers stormed the rally ground where Ndigbara was supervising the mounting of canopies,  and forced him into a waiting Toyota Highlander vehicle.
The abductors established contact with their victim’s family and allegedly demanded for a N100 million ransom.
Ndigbara’s wife, Joyce, said on Saturday that her husband was blindfolded by his captors for many days before he was released.
Speaking at the Government House Clinic where her husband was admitted, Mrs. Ndigbara explained that the governor’s aide was allowed to go without removing the blindfold from his eyes.
Though she could not explain her husband’s ordeal in the hands of the kidnappers, she pointed out that some indigenes of Nwawi community in the same Khana Local Government Area saw the kidnap victim and removed the blindfold from his eyes.
“He (Ndigbara) was blindfolded for many days. Even when he was allowed to go, he was still blindfolded and left around the bush in Nwawi community. Some members of the community saw him and rescued him,” she added.  a result of the ordeal he went through in the hands of the kidnappers.