By Praise Chinecherem
Luck smiled on Mrs. Ugochukwu Chikelue, a mother of four children who kidnapped along Igboezulu Aguleri road in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra state last Friday.
Mrs. Chikelue was on her way home from the market that fateful Friday evening when she was abducted and taken into a forest.
It was a journey that claimed many lives but luck smiled on her as a team of hunters led by the Deputy Commander-General (Technical Services) Nigerian Hunters and Forest Security Service (NHFSS) Amb. Dr. Johnny Metchie rescued her from the kidnappers.
Chikelue, an Indigene of Umueri community who resides in the village with her four children, recounted her ordeal in the hands of her abductors and how God gave her a second chance in life.
According to her, moments after she was abducted, the assailants had tied her hands and legs and took her to a river bank where she was instructed to make her last phone call to determine whether she would be spared or thrown into the river.
That phone call, according to her, became her salvation as few minutes later as her abductors were preparing to kill her, Metchie who is the President-General of Umueri Town Union intervened and she was rescued.
While being held hostage, Mrs Chikelue said she was beaten by her abductors who also made jest of her while torturing her, saying that they would throw her into the river with her hands and legs tied and she would be wasted like many others who have met their untimely deaths for lack of rescue.
She told this reporter that she has never met the PG or knew him but he gave her a second life by saving her from Kidnappers and helping her reunite again with her 4 children, stressing that her ordeal in the hands of the Kidnappers was a narrow escape from death.
Reacting, DCG Nigerian Hunters and Forest Security Service (NHFSS), who is also the Prime Minister of the Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU), Amb. Dr. Johnny Metchie, said it was to the glory of God that the woman was rescued from captivity.
Metchie said it was only natural that he intervened when contacted because he is the PG of Umueri community and the kidnap victim is an Indigene of Umueri.
While commending the efforts of Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo’s administration in tackling insecurity head-on in Anambra State through the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police, Nigerian Hunters and Forest Security Service, Local Vigilante Groups and others, he equally called for watertight security this festive season and always to enable Ndi-Anambra enjoy a tranquil atmosphere devoid of tension and fear.
