Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has expressed outrage over the rate of kidnapping in Enugu State. It has been reported that no fewer than 20 people were abducted at different locations in the state at the weekend. 
  
A statement by the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC), Okwu Nnabuike, said the rate of kidnapping in the state is outrageous.  Okwu noted that hoodlums have taken over every major road outside the state capital, stressing that security agencies have not been able to walk the talk. 
  
 He said: “This wakeup call is necessitated by recent developments in Enugu State where people can no longer move freely outside the state capital. Despite the efforts of the current state government, including provision of logistics to security agencies, we are yet to see tangible results. 
  
“There has been no day that passed without a report of a kidnapping incident in Enugu. If it is not along Enugu-Ugwuogo-Opi Nsukka Road, it is 4-Corner-Udi Road; if it is not old Udi-Oji River Road, it is the expressway. This is outrageous and totally unacceptable.”

MEANWHILE, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), yesterday, tasked the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division, Nigeria Army, Enugu, Major Gen Hassan Taiwo Dada, and Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Kanayo Uzuegbu, on the safety and rescue of over 30 people kidnapped in the state in the past three days.
  
The group also expressed sadness with the killing of three youths from Mgbowo, Awgu Council of the state, on Monday, by the police in the guise that they were enforcers of the unlawful sit-at-home order.
  
It stated that facts at the disposal of the group indicate a contrary motive by those behind the killing of the three youths, stressing that their timing, legal and operational basis were mired in controversies.

ALSO, a former Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, has urged the Federal Government to do more to curtail the problem of insecurity in various parts of the country.
  
Ohakim, in a statement, yesterday, also mocked the governorship candidates of various political parties in the November 11 poll in the state for boasting that they would address the issue of insecurity if elected, asking them to prove it.   He said: “With regard to addressing the problem of insecurity, we hear a lot of ‘I will do this or that,’ but we are not hearing how it will be done.”