By Jimitota Onoyume
PORT HARCOURT—  FOUR days after a combined team of the Army and Police from Rivers and Abia States carried out an onslaught at the camp of kidnappers in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State, the four female corps members taken hostage about two weeks ago at Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State, who  allegedly fled from their abductors during the raid are still missing.

The Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mr Suleiman Abba, and several other top security operatives that were part of the onslaught on the camps of the hoodlums, had expressed the hope after the operation that the kidnapped corps members would resurface after some days.

According to the Rivers State Police boss, Mr Aba, when he briefed the media on the operation on Thursday, the corps members escaped from their abductors in the heat of the onslaught. Probably since they were not familiar with the terrain, they were still trying to find their way out. But apprehension and worries have started building up in several quarters   on the whereabouts of the corps members.

A search party set up by security operatives to trace the corps members had not come up with any concrete information. Speculations have continued to heighten in some circles, that the kidnappers, who fled during the raid on their camp probably disappeared with the female corps members.

Meantime, Vanguard gathered that the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga and top officials of the state chapter of the corps were at Omuma on Saturday.  A source, who hinted Vanguard of the visit, refused to comment on the purpose of the visit.

It will be recalled that in the early hours of Wednesday, a combined security team stormed the hide out of the kidnappers in Ogwe, Ozota, Owasa, Ogwati and Obokwe all in Ukwa West council.

Three of their camps were reportedly smashed during the operations while some of them were feared killed.

The Rivers Police boss said hostages in their camps used the opportunity of the invasion to escape.