Former President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to never negotiate with the kidnappers of his uncle and foster father, Chief Nitabai Inegite.Chief Nengite, 72, a retired lecturer of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, was abducted from his Otuoke country home on February 17 alongside with his younger cousin Samuel Okies.
The former president insisted that he was not going to pay any ransom to the abductors whatsoever.
The Bayelsa state police commissioner Peter Ogunyanwo revealed Jonathan’s position during a parade of 37 suspected armed robbers and kidnappers at command headquarters.
Ogunyanwo hailed the position taken by Jonathan, saying that it would discourage other criminals against kidnapping.
“On the kidnap of the foster father of former president Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Inegite, I have met several times with the former president on the matter and he has insisted that he is not going to pay ransom,” he said.
“The kidnappers have reduced their ransom to about N2million but the former president said he would not pay ransom. We are on the trail of the kidnappers and we will get them.
“People should not pay ransom. Just like Governor Seriake Dickson also did not pay ransom for the freedom of his sister, people should be discouraged to pay ransom so that the business of kidnapping would stop.”
Chief Nengite, who has been missing since February
The state police commissioner went on to claim that since he assumed his post, the command has put in place a robust anti-crime strategy.
He noted that while criminal elements are devising various ways to commit crime, the police command is up to the task.
Ogunyanwo who also disclosed that his men foiled a kidnap attempt of the newly sworn-in chairman of the state environmental sanitation authority, Hon Robert Enogha, called on members of the public to come with useful information that would ensure that criminal elements are not allowed to operate in the state.
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