A social media report that eight persons were kidnapped and few others injured in Amakor village, Nanka, Orumba North Council Area, has been debunked.
Former Chairman of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Aguata branch and legal adviser to Nanka Patriotic Union (NPU), Chief Clifford Okoye in an interview with journalists said such an incident did not happen in the area.
He described the report as odious, misleading, mischievous, dangerous and a deliberate attempt to portray the town as unsafe capable of dissuading the indigenes of the community in Diaspora from returning home to celebrate the oncoming new yam festival taking place soon in the town.
Report has it that investigation carried out by newsmen showed that there was no gunmen attack, neither were eight people kidnapped in Amakor village as reported in some social media.
According to a report, many indigenes of the community who spoke on the matter said what happened was that police came and arrested a suspect during a social function who they said police earlier summoned to their headquarters in Abuja for a pending case in Amakor village. They said nobody was kidnapped.
The lawyer said such news was evil and capable of causing tension in the town as well as in Anambra State, adding that its originators were enemies of peace.
Mr Okoye narrated that what actually took place on that day was that the police came to the village to effect an arrest of an indigene of Amakor village.
He said the suspect had been floating a splinter group under the umbrella of Amakor Njikoka Development Union against the recognized executive body in the village despite several letters of warning to desist from the act by the Anambra State government.
He disclosed that the suspect together with three others were summoned by the police from Abuja headquarters.
“The kidnap news is fake, evil, condemnable. My town Nanka is peaceful. Security of the town is well knitted.
“Everybody is going about their businesses without fear of molestation, we are safe and I am appealing to our people to disregard such news and prepare for our oncoming new yam festival as all is well, “he concluded.
