Mr Nomeh thanked the governor for fulfilling his campaign promise, adding that the dealers had agreed to the relocation.
Mr Ndukwe said after a gun battle with the abductors, they abandoned the victims and fled.
The commissioner also assured the residents of the state that further development on the matter would be made public.
The rescue followed a distress call from the police to troops deployed at Udi checkpoint.
“On approaching, the soldiers started firing at us, killing one of us and a woman who was on a motorcycle with her husband going back to Eke community.”
People interviewed said that the emptiness of Enugu, irrespective of the bad state of the economy, was not unexpected.
“The seven persons included a couple, alleged to have been abducted by unidentified armed men while they went to pray at one “Mount Calvary”
PDP’s stakeholders in Udi local government area have appealed to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to zone the Enugu West senatorial district ticket to the area.
