By Ikeugonna Eleke
A mother of three and wife of kidnapped Anambra businessman, Mr Tochukwu Ezemma, also known as Big Ben, has cried out to the Governor of the state, Prof Charles Soludo, for help.
The woman, Mrs Bernadette Ezemma, in a post she made on Facebook said since November 12 last year when her husband was kidnapped by unknown persons while leaving his hotel for a meeting, he had not been found.
Mrs Ezemma, in her post said she had been working with service agencies in the state to track down her husband’s kidnappers, but felt disappointed that they had turned around to tell her that her husband’s kidnappers could not be arrested because they were billionaires, and that billionaires were not arrested ”anyhow”.
In a message she titled; ”Where is my husband?”, Mrs Ezemma said: ‘Security has concluded investigations and they know the people my husband went to meet with but till date, no action has been taken about the outcome of the investigations.
‘The State Governor, Prof Charles Soludo (the Chief Security Officer) and his inner cabinet, know this, the whereabouts of Big Ben, and the people he had a meeting with on that fateful day and what happened to him but they have remained silent because they said the so-called people he went for the meeting with are high profile and dangerous people.
‘Are there people that are bigger than the law and the government in our state now?’ She asked.
She said those two months of her husband’s absence had been hellish for her family, begging that for the sake of her one year old child who did not even know the father, and her two other young children, the Governor should wade into the matter.
She said: ‘I can no longer be quiet. It’s been over two months of extreme torture for me, my children and the entire family. I ask again, where is my husband and the father of my three innocent children? What exactly is the problem with these high profile people? What in the name of God is this problem that cannot be talked over?
‘Now, they say the case is in court, that the family should get a lawyer to follow up for us in court but we need to know who the case is against. What is the person/s charged with?’
She described her husband as someone that could not be wished away as an unknown quantity in the state, saying he was a serial investor in real estate, fashion industry, and had been a known philanthropist who had helped many youths.
