Kidnap menace: Aba residents flee

Despite the heavy presence of soldiers stationed in some crime flashpoints, residents of Aba and environs are leaving the town in droves with most of the popular motorparks in the commercial city on Thursday filled with apprehensive passengers fleeing the city for fear of insecurity.

At most of the parks visited, some transporters, drivers and union leaders complained of shortage of vehicles to handle the unexpected influx. At the Peace Mass Transit and Imo Transport Corporation (ITC) parks, many passengers with their children and luggage queued up awaiting the arrival of vehicles for Enugu, Onitsha and other routes.

Mr. Lucky Nnamdi, one of the passengers at the ITC Park said he ran out of their residential home with his three children on the outskirts of Aba and had stayed as a refugee with a relation inside the town for about two weeks.

He said his experience had been horrible and that was why he was leaving the city. He said a situation in which the banks were not working, shops, schools and some markets closed down, the people had suffered enough. He said it was better for him and members of his family to die in their hometown and be buried there than outside.

Story From OKEY SAMPSON, Aba
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