A popular Owerri, Imo State businessman, Amamechi Ahanonu has been murdered by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, after collecting N500, 000 as ransom from his family. The suspected kidnappers had on Monday morning, stormed the Ahanonu’s house in Amato Orogwe in the Owerri West and whisked him away after shooting sporadically into the air.


The gunmen later called the family of the victim and demanded N10m as ransom. His family, however, could only raise N500, 000 before the abductors allegedly murdered him.

The amount provided by his family was said to have provoked his abductors, who allegedly killed him and dropped his corpse on a bush path along Ndegwu/Orogwe Road in Owerri West area. They found his lifeless body on Friday morning.