The Delta State Police Command has introduced the arrest of two suspected kidnappers and 4 suspected cultists in separate operations.
This was disclosed in a press release on Tuesday by the command's Public Relations Officer, DSP Edafe Vibrant.
The assertion learn partly: “On 31/10/2023 at about 10:17pm, the DPO Orerokpe, CSP Paul Oboware, acquired a misery name relating to a suspected kidnapping of 1 man (title withheld) by three armed males. The abductors later contacted the household and demanded a ransom of 5 Million Naira.
“Upon receiving the report, the DPO shortly mobilized and led detectives to the scene of the incident, combed all adjoining streets and bushes looking for hoodlums, probably rescuing the sufferer.
“The sufferer was later launched after an undisclosed ransom was paid.”
The assertion added that the DPO continued investigations into the incident which bore fruit on March 5, 2024, when Peter Idogor (24) and Emmanuel Sunday (19) of Evwreni neighborhood had been apprehended by a technology-enabled investigation as a search to the remaining victims. gang members is happening.
The suspects are additionally stated to have been recognized by the sufferer.
Based on the assertion, in one other operation on March 6, 2024, appearing on a tip-off about cult actions, the CP-DECOY Squad raided a lodge close to Asaba's Federal School Junction.
Upon seeing the officers, some suspects fled, whereas 4 suspects had been arrested whereas hiding within the ceiling.
The assertion learn partly: “Upon seeing the officers, the cult members instantly took to their heels, scattering in several instructions, however had been met with a brutal chase by the officers, throughout which 4 of the suspected cult members hiding within the ceiling had been arrested .
“The suspects, all male residents of Asaba, Delta State, embody the next: Chigozie Edwin, a 28-year-old resident of Akpuoga village in Ujodo LGA of Enugu State; James Prince Chukwuebuka, a 20-year-old resident of Effiom Village in Ezza North LGA of Ebonyi State; Concord Mkemjika Ohanebum, a 30-year-old resident of Okija city in Ihiala LGA of Anambra State; and Garba Jubril, a 27-year-old resident of Kogmbotō LGA, Kano State.
“Following the arrest of those suspects, an intensive search was carried out and two Barretta pistols with two rounds of dwell ammunition, a domestically reduce pistol with one dwell spherical, had been recovered from the ceiling.
“The manhunt for the opposite fleeing members of the gang is ongoing.”
Reacting to the arrests, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, within the assertion, charged officers of the command to make each effort to carry criminals accountable for his or her actions, warning that enterprise any type of legal exercise within the state has critical penalties. .
The PUNCH reported in January that the Anambra State Police Command has arrested about 30 suspects together with kidnappers, armed robbers, cultists and hoodlums who’ve terrorized the state in latest instances.