Gunmen have abducted a member of the Anambra House of Assembly.
LEADING REPORTERS gathered that the lawmaker, Justice Azuka, was abducted on Tuesday night along Ugwunapampa Road in Onitsha North Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Sources said Mr Azuka, who represents Onitsha North Constituency I in the state assembly, was returning home for Christmas celebration when the hoodlums attacked him.
The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the development in a statement forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday evening.
Mr Ikenga, a superintendent of police, said the gunmen abducted the lawmaker at about 9:20 p.m. on Tuesday.
The spokesperson said police in the state had “activated operational plans for the possible rescue and arrest of the kidnappers of the lawmaker.”
