Police Arrest 2 Kidnap Suspects, Rescue Victim In Imo

Posted by: unilag on January 25, 2013 in Nigerian News Leave a comment

Men of the Imo State Police Command last Wednesday arrested two suspected kidnappers and freed a woman they abducted from Igwuruta, Rivers State, Vanguard reports.

Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Vitalis Onugu, while confirming this to newsmen yesterday said that “in the early hours of last Wednesday, four armed men stormed the home of Mrs Linus Okechi situated along Farm Road, Igwuruta, Rivers State, when she was about taking her children to school”.

Onugu said the armed hoodlums quickly ordered her into her Honda CRV RAV4 vehicle and took her away.

“They drove from Igwuruta to Imo and on getting to Ihiagwa, Owerri West local government area, policemen on stop and search flagged them down but they refused to stop. Sensing that something was amiss, the policemen pursued them,” the PPRO recounted.

Speaking further, Onugu said that the hoodlums ran into a traffic gridlock and on realizing that the police was closing in on them, jumped out of the vehicle and ran into a nearby bush.

“The police still defied odds and ran after the fleeing gangsters. Their effort paid off as two of the four fleeing kidnappers were arrested,” Onugu said.

“The woman was rescued alive and unhurt, while the two suspects have been transferred to Rivers State Police Command for further investigation and possible prosecution.”

Onugu gave the names of the arrested suspects as Josiah Michael, a motor mechanic, and native of Etche, Rivers State, and Ifeanyi Ezeala from Umuowa, Orlu, Imo State.

Following the arrests, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Baba Adisa Bolanta has appealed to youths to resist every temptation that would lure them into crime, as he warned that the police would not hesitate to deal with anybody or group of persons that preferred to take to crime instead of being useful to themselves and society.