Men of the Edo State Police Command on Friday evening rescued five kidnapped victims and arrested two suspects in connection with the crime, in addition to recovering arms and ammunition from the suspects.
In a press statement endorsed by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Bello Kontongs, on Saturday morning, the operatives, acting on a tip-off that some hoodlums, suspected to be kidnappers, had accosted a vehicle conveying corpse from Lagos to Imo State around Ute River, Benin-Lagos bypass, where they Kidnapped three occupants of the vehicle, they moved into action.
“On receipt of the information, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Egba division, SP John O. Emmanuel, immediately swung into action, mobilised his operatives and the local Vigilante group for immediate bush combing. They advanced into the Ute forest. After hours of bush combing, they came across the suspected kidnappers. On sighting the Police, they (kidnappers) opened fire on them (police). The team of operatives engaged them in a gun duel.
“The superior firepower of the Police operatives made the suspected kidnappers abandon the victims. However, two (2) of the suspects were apprehended, they are Mohammed Ishaku ‘m’ age 25, and Mubarak Wada ‘m’ age 26, while others escaped with bullet wounds into the thick forest. Three locally made guns, two (2) live cartridges, two (2) Cutlasses, and some charms were also recovered from the suspects”, the Edo PPRO stated
According to Kontongs, three of the kidnapped victims conveying the corpse were rescues alongside two other victims earlier kidnapped, adding that all the rescued victims had been taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention.
He added that effort was in progress to arrest other fleeing gang members.
Kontongs conveyed the appreciation of the Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, CP Philip Aliyu Obadu for the timely information received from members of the public that led to the rescue of the victims and subsequent arrest of the suspects.
The CP, the PPRO added, further assured that the Command, under his watch, would continue to strengthen the patrolling of various Federal Highways linking to Edo State, to curtail the activities of hoodlums.
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