The Inspector-General of
Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris has warned criminals, especially kidnappers in the
country never to think Nigeria is lawless.
Media
report continues:
IGP
Idris gave the warning when Operatives of the IGP’s Intelligent Response Team
“IRT” arrested a notorious kidnapping gang known to have been terrorizing
law-abiding citizens in Rivers State and its environs.
The gang met its end when
they kidnapped a woman and her one year old daughter from her Port Harcourt
home, demanding the sum of two million, five hundred thousand naira as ransom
for their freedom. Based on credible technical intelligence generated by the
IRT, this was however agreed as bait.
But
the end of the kidnapping gang came when in their attempt to claim the said sum
of money at the agreed point; Operatives of IRT engaged them, rescued the
victims and arrested four of the kidnappers who gave their names as: Herbert
Oriminagbe, Chijioke Akah, alias Kottos, Kelechi Nwaordu, alias Seedof and
Nelson Ajumogobia alias Ibios.
In
their confessional statements, the gang admitted that they were also
responsible for the kidnap of one Undunobuk and other innocent Nigerians. Going
through a laptop computer recovered from them, it was discovered that the real
owner Undunobuk was once robbed in his Port Harcourt residence and later
kidnapped to unknown seaside only to be released on the payment of one million,
three hundred thousand naira ransom.
The
Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris said the Nigeria Police Force
has the technical and intelligence capacity and capability to reduce the
perceived rise in crime, especially kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism and
other forms of violent crime. He therefore charged Nigerians to always inform
the Police when they perceived any act of criminality and avail necessary
credible information.
DCP DON AWUNAH,FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
FORCE HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA
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