Team (IRT) has arrested three members of a
notorious kidnap gang that have terrorized
Kogi State and its environs and rescued four
kidnapped victims at different locations.
A statement by Force Public Relations
Officer, DCP Don Awunah said a special
intelligence led operation conducted by the
operatives of the Intelligence Response Team
of the IGP’s Monitoring Unit at different
black spots in Kogi State, three members of a
notorious kidnap gang that has for a while
operated in major cities in Kogi and
neighbouring States were trailed and arrested
at their hideouts in the outskirt of Egume
and Anyimgba Towns in Kogi State.
The leader of the gang who gave his name
as Ibrahim Nasarawa led the operatives of
Intelligence Response Team to their den
where Edward Abutu Amedu was held
hostage. On sighting the Operatives, the
armed guards who were stationed by the
gang to keep watch over their victims opened
fire on the Police and the operatives
responded and overpowered them in a
tactical operation that saw three members of
the kidnap gang suffer fatal injuries while
their victim was rescued unhurt. Two of our
men sustained gunshot injuries and are
currently responding to treatment in the
hospital while the other members of the gang
escaped with bullet wounds.
In another coordinated operation based on
credible intelligence generated by Operatives
of the intelligence Response Team, three
members of a dare-devil kidnap gang that
abducted Mrs. Mayo Ohemi, Nichodemus
Kadiri and Miss Victoria Abdul from Acharu
Egume area of Kogi State were arrested and
their confession led to the rescue of the
victims who were incacerated in the
kidnapers’ camp from where they demanded
a ransom of twenty million naira. The
rescued victims who sustained various
degrees of injuries in the hands of their
abductors are now receiving treatment in the
Hospital.
The arrested suspects are: Ojonimi Negedu,
32, Awodi Ezekiel, 26, Micheal Sule, 21.
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