Former Central Bank Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, is safe,
the Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Monday Kuryas, has said.
Kuryas spoke on Channels Television, after gunmen attacked
Soludo on Wednesday and killed three of his police orderlies.
The incident happened in Soludo’s home town in Isiofia in
the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Speaking on the television programme, the police commissioner said though Soludo was safe, the state Commissioner for Public Utilities, Emeka Ezenwanne, was abducted by the gunmen.
Kuryas said, ”The former CBN governor was holding a town
hall meeting with the youths of his community called Isuofia in Aguata Local
Government Area of the state.
“Suddenly, unknown gunmen attacked my men that were
providing security for him. In the exchange of fire, three of my men were
killed but the professor is safe.
“However, the Commissioner for Public Utilities, Engr Emeka
Ezenwanne, was abducted in the process and my men are on the heels of the
abductors.”
The commissioner said he has since visited the ex-CBN
governor and “reassured the professor of the security around him”.
While assuring the people of the state that his men were on
top of the situation, the police boss said some arrests have been made in
connection with the crime.
Soludo, of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, is a frontline
aspirant in the November 6 governorship poll in the state.
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