Imagine kissing your husband, father, brother or colleague goodbye as they leave for work on an ordinary morning and then five years pass without a phone call, without a body, without answers and without even the comfort of knowing what truly happened.
That kind of silence is not just painful, it becomes its own punishment. Yet while families keep waiting, official files seem to have mastered the art of growing older without growing closer to the truth.
Now the Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy and Development has demanded a fresh independent federal investigation into the disappearance of five engineers attached to NELAN Consulting Limited who vanished on November 3, 2021, after leaving Enugu State Nigeria to supervise the Abakaliki Ring Road Project in Ebonyi State. The missing engineers are Engr.
Nelson Onyemeh, Engr. Ernest Edeani, Engr. Ikechukwu Ejiofor, Engr. Samuel Aneke and Engr. Stanley Nwazulum. FENRAD said that despite investigations, criminal proceedings against some suspects and several official statements over the years, the whereabouts of the engineers remain unknown, leaving their wives, children, relatives, colleagues and the Nigerian public without closure.
The organisation described the unresolved disappearance as one of Nigeria’s most disturbing unresolved cases involving professionals working on public infrastructure and warned that five years of silence has become a serious test of justice, accountability and the rule of law.
