Friday 24 July 2015

Police smash kidnap gang in Delta

A victim of kidnappers, Mr Obi Okoye, has been rescued by the police in Delta State, a day after he was abducted by five armed hoodlums.

Okoye was abducted from his home on Ibusa Road, Asaba, the state capital by the gunmen who stormed his residence in a red Audi 80 car and took him to an unknown destination on Saturday.

Police spokesperson DSP Tina Kalu, who spoke in Asaba yesterday, said the kidnappers were arrested on Sunday around 11. 30am when some policemen from the anti-robbery patrol team attached to Ogwashi-Uku Division rescued the victim......


Kalu said Okoye was rescued from an uncompleted building behind Aunty Bose Group of Schools in Ogwashi-Uku when the policemen who acted on tip off, stormed the den.

Also, she said while acting on a tip off on Tuesday, a patrol team from Otu-Jeremi Division arrested Mr Samson Aboy of Ogbe-Ijaw while he was attempting to drive a Toyota Corolla car, parked at Ekrekevei Street, Ekakpamre in Ughelli South Local Council.

Kalu said the suspect confessed that he was a member of a five-man gang of armed robbers and that his gang snatched the Toyota Corolla from a woman on Airport Road, Warri, in the previous week.

She said the suspect further confessed that his gang had used the recovered vehicle to rob a man identified as Wafera Arthur Tuwasco and others on Otokutu Road in Ughelli South Local Council on July 18.

She said effort was in progress to arrest the fleeing kidnappers, adding that a manhunt for the car snatcher’s cohorts who are on the run, had been intensified.
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