The Police Command in Delta today, announced the rescue of the wife of the Financial Secretary, Petroleum Tanker Drivers Association, the recovery of N2.9 million ransom and arrest of four persons in connection with the kidnap.
Mr Ikechukwu Aduba, the Commissioner of Police while briefing newsmen in Asaba, said the woman was kidnapped on Tuesday in her store at Ekpan in Warri.
“The gunmen who demanded the sum of N5 million, took the victim to their hideout in Benin, Edo State,’’ Aduba said.
He said that police officers who carried out the rescue operation returned with the woman unhurt at about 4.30 a.m. on Saturday.
“Acting on intelligence report, men of the state anti-terrorist squad stormed the kidnappers’ hideout in Benin city and arrested four notorious armed kidnappers including a 20 year-old girl.
“The victim was rescued and items recovered from the suspects included N2.9 million which they collected as ransom.
“We also recovered one black Sienna space bus with registration number EK 483 BEN and an Audi car with registration number AA 261 DGS,” the commissioner said.
Aduba told newsmen that anti-crime patrol team from Sapele also arrested two suspects during a stop-and-search operation and recovered 25 live cartridges.
“On interrogation, the two suspects confessed membership of a robbery gang terrorising the residents of Oghara in Ethiope West Local Government Area and its environs,’’ he said.
The commissioner, who described Ororokpe in Okpe LGA as a `den of criminals,’ appealed to parents to monitor the activities of their children and wards.
“It has become necessary to warn criminals to have a change of heart and take to legitimate business or be prepared to face the full weight of the law.
“We want to appeal to members of the public to have absolute faith in the Command as we have resolved to rout hoodlums and kidnappers out of the state,’’ Aduba said. (NAN)
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