On July 17, 2012, Peter Obi, then governor of Anambra State, swore in five new commissioners. One of them was Chike Okoli, whom he assigned to the Ministry of Science and Technology, where he would serve as commissioner until the expiration of Mr Obi’s governorship tenure in March 2014.
Two months later, around May 21, 2014, Mr Okoli set out from the state capital Awka to Nanka, his village in Orumba South Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. He never got there.
Somewhere in Agulu, not far from Nanka, Chike’s car was reportedly intercepted by men in a sports utility vehicle (SUV), who abducted him. Despite having much of their ransom demand of N16 million met, Mr Okoli has not been seen or heard from since then. It was widely reported at the time that Chike was “abducted by unknown gunmen.”
Forty-one days before Chike Okoli’s abduction, then-Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Abubakar went to Awka, where he declared…
