The co-workers of two yet-to-be-identified Chinese expatriates and three Nigerians who were declared missing during a business trip from Onitsha in Anambra State to Aba in Abia State on December 3, 2023 have said efforts are ongoing to locate their whereabouts.
“A group of five people (two Chinese, three Nigerian) on a business trip from Onitsha to Aba have been missing within the Eastern part of Nigeria since 3rd December 2023 and every effort to search for them proves abortive:
Anyone with viable information leading to their whereabouts will be rewarded handsomely,” the announcement read.One of their associates who identified himself simply as Saheed, told PUNCH Metro on telephone on Wednesday that the trip was not their first in the region. He said, “This is not their first time going there.
The Chinese people don’t live here in Nigeria. They only come to do their business survey, meet their customers and their partners, and then they go back. Another colleague, who identified himself simply as Ben, said, “The expatriates arrived on November 19 and two weeks after, they embarked on the trip.
There was communication with them that day and that was the last time we heard from them. We called all the phone numbers of people in the car and none of them went through. That was how we immediately reported to the police stations in Aba and Onitsha. Up till now, we have not got any call from anybody. They stayed in Onitsha for more than two weeks.”
SOURCE: PUNCH DAILY NEWSPAPER