FROM DOM EKPU, ONITSHA
Chairman of G. U. O. Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke, yesterday told an Onitsha High Court, in Anambra State that he offered N1 billion ransom to kidnappers who abducted him on August 23, 2009.
Okeke, who gave evidence under oath, in court presided over by Justice Chudi Nwankwo, narrated his encounter with the kidnappers who abducted him at the All Saints Anglican Church Cathedral, Onitsha, where he went for a Sunday worship with his wife, driver and some family members.
Led in the evidence by his counsel, Chris Ajugwe, Okeke stated that he went for 7 a.m. service, which ended at about 10 am, revealing that as they were driving out of the church premises, with his wife on the wheels of his Nissan AMADA SUV, gunmen blocked them with a Hummer bus and a Mercedes Benz V-Booth.
Okeke told the court that the gunmen started shooting sporadically, adding that even though he managed to disarm one or two of them, they shattered his left leg, over-powered him and took him away. The kidnappers, he said, drove through Alor, Adazi-Ani and Adazi-Enu, adding that somewhere between Adazi-Enu and Neni communities, in Anaocha Local Government Area of the state, they drove into a bungalow, arrested the occupants, who were mainly children, locked them up in one of the rooms and held him hostage in the parlour.
He said two of the abductors were with him inside, while others stayed outside monitoring movements, adding that the duo with him advised him not to drink water because of his bullet wound.
According to him, he offered the kidnappers N1 billion. Justice Nwankwo later adjourned the matter to November 14, 26, 27, 28, December 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9, for accelerated hearing and possible dispensation of the matter.
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