We will rescue kidnapped victims in Edo within four hours, says CP

The Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Philip Ogbadu, on Tuesday said that his target in the state is to ensure that kidnapped victims are rescued within four hours while also reading riot act to criminals, asking them to leave the state.

Ogbadu, who made the disclosure during a visit to the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), however, assured that the command was on top of the security situations in the state and warned criminals to relocate from the state.

He, however, alleged that thouse criminals attacking people of the state are not indigenes of the state, claiming that some of them are from Kogi, Ondo, Delta and some other states.

According to the police commissioner, his target would be to ensure that kidnapped victims are rescued within four hours.

“In the past five days, you cannot kidnap anybody in this state and keep him or her for four hours, if you keep the person for more than that, we will catch you and that is what we are working towards. You cannot just come and pick somebody as if he is a fowl and if we catch you, woe betides you and that is what we are aiming at.

“I want to tell you that some of these people worrying us are not indigenes of this state, some are from Delta, some from Kogi, some from Ondo and other states.

“The bad places that have been giving us bad names, we are keeping eyes on them; Benin–Auchi road around Ehor, Ahor and other areas we are putting our men on the alert so that whatever happens there, our men will be on ground,” he assured.

The Commissioner of Police who was received by the leadership of the Edo NUJ, led by the Chairman, Rolland Osakue, said that he had “travelled all the way to Igarra, Ibillo, we have gone to Agenebode, we have gone all the way to Akure road, there is no part of the state that we have not gone to and thank God for the governor we have who is always there in the time of distress, he has established a command and control centre at the Government House from which we get information.

“The way they terrorise people in the bushes in some states, they can’t do that here because we are working with the vigilantes, so there is synergy both with the military, the SSS, NSCDC, FRSC, the hunters. We share information, the police only coordinate as the arrowhead because of the spread.”