Nigeria, March 14 -- The wives of five engineers abducted over four years ago in Ebonyi State have petitioned President Bola Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, requesting their intervention in the matter.

The engineers, Nelson Onyemeh, Ernest Edeani, Ikechukwu Ejiofor, Samuel Aneke and Stanley Nwazulum, all employees of NELAN Construction Ltd., were reportedly abducted in November 2021 by armed men while supervising the Abakaliki Ring Road project in Ebonyi State, a project financed by the African Development Bank.

They have not been seen since then.

In the petition written by the families' lawyers, CNO Attorneys and dated 10 March, the women - Patricia Onyemeh, L...