The Police Command in Rivers State on Saturday said that it had rescued the abducted Lebanese actor who acts in Nollywood movies, Bilal Nosser.
The command’s spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said in a statement that it took the swift intervention of operatives from Okehi Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer to rescue the abducted Lebanese actor on Saturday in Port Harcourt.
Nosser was kidnapped in the early hours of Friday in Imo State and kept in a thick forest of Ndashi community in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Omoni said: “Operatives from Okehi Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) rescued Bilal Nosser, a Nollywood actor popularly known as ‘Mr B’, in a sting operation on Friday night.
“Nosser was kidnapped in the early hours of Friday in Imo State and taken to a forest in Ndashi where he was rescued by the DPO and his team,” he said.
Omoni said that the operatives arrested one suspect in the hideout while others fled on sighting the police team.
“The male suspect was arrested while he was keeping watch over Nosser. The suspect had confessed to the crime as well as named other gang members.
“Consequently, efforts have been intensified to arrest his fleeing members and recover their operational weapons,” he said.
The police spokesman also said that the team recovered a Toyota Venza car belonging to the abducted Lebanese actor from his abductors.
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