BAYELSA State Police Command, yesterday, secured the release
of four expatriate oil workers and a Nigerian who works in Daewoo Nig. Ltd.
site located in the Brass area of the state after spending five days in
captivity.
The state's Commissioner of police, Mr. Kingsley Omire, while addressing journalists, said his command would collaborate with the company in the area of security, saying that at the time of the incidenct, there was no armed security around the area of the company's facility, noting the danger in the fact that both the company and their residential areas are not secured.
The names of those released from the claws of kidnappers were the South Korean workers, Joon Suck-Chase, Jong Hai Kim, Hi Ko Kim, Doo Won Lee and the Nigerian, Austin Gina.
Narrating their ordeal, Mr. Gina said he was in his office when he heard a gunshot at about 2pm last Monday. He looked around to find out what was happening, and found out that the four Koreans had already been kidnapped. They were all asked to bend their heads and face down by their captors who were seven in number.
According to him, they were only tortured the first day after which the kidnappers, supprisingly, became friendly and started feeding them with all kinds of food including tea and bread.
“They later demanded ransom from our company but we were told that the state government was working to secure our release. They said we should get ready to go and described us as bad market,” he narrated.
Meanwhle, the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Victor Ochei, yesterday gave a damning verdict on the kidnapping spree across the oil rich state.
The Speaker learnt his voice on the kidnap and eventual release of the mother of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Speaking while reviewing House activities for the outgoing 2012 at the Assembly complex in Asaba yesterday, the Speaker said the state's police commands’ former Head of Anti-Kidnap Squad, Adeyemi Osamwonyi, planted the seed of the crime in the state.
According to the Speaker, periodic assessment of the activities of the state command, gave the House the strength and vigour to tackle the challenge posed by hoodlums before Osamwonyi was kicked out of the state.
He said: “We have not reversed our resolution on CSP Adeyemi Osamwonyi over the kidnapping activities in the state. The seed he planted has since germinated and it is growing every day, the effect of which we are all experiencing today.
“While we lament the manifest challenges of insecurity”, he continued, “that have befallen our country in recent times, kidnapping and terrorism has become a thriving business. It was in response to this that we passed the Anti-Kidnapping and Anti-Terrorism Bills to adequately stem the tide of a recurring malady. Kidnapping is a manifestation of desperado which also makes it imperative to apply desperate measures to tackle it.”
The House six months ago, in a desperate measure to stem the tide of the crime in the state, passed a resolution demanding re-arrest of CSP Osamwonyi and full scale investigation into the involvement of the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Parry Osayande.
Although, the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, reacted by saying he has no substantial fact to connect the CSP to the alleged offence, he however urged anybody with useful information to nail him to volunteer it, even as he redeployed the CSP to one of the Northern state.
The Speaker who summarised the legislative engagement of the House among the 12 bills passed in the outgoing year, seven of which have been assented to and five awaiting assent of the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, said the overriding need to represent Deltans spurred their resolution against the CSP and failed contractors.
The state's Commissioner of police, Mr. Kingsley Omire, while addressing journalists, said his command would collaborate with the company in the area of security, saying that at the time of the incidenct, there was no armed security around the area of the company's facility, noting the danger in the fact that both the company and their residential areas are not secured.
The names of those released from the claws of kidnappers were the South Korean workers, Joon Suck-Chase, Jong Hai Kim, Hi Ko Kim, Doo Won Lee and the Nigerian, Austin Gina.
Narrating their ordeal, Mr. Gina said he was in his office when he heard a gunshot at about 2pm last Monday. He looked around to find out what was happening, and found out that the four Koreans had already been kidnapped. They were all asked to bend their heads and face down by their captors who were seven in number.
According to him, they were only tortured the first day after which the kidnappers, supprisingly, became friendly and started feeding them with all kinds of food including tea and bread.
“They later demanded ransom from our company but we were told that the state government was working to secure our release. They said we should get ready to go and described us as bad market,” he narrated.
Meanwhle, the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Victor Ochei, yesterday gave a damning verdict on the kidnapping spree across the oil rich state.
The Speaker learnt his voice on the kidnap and eventual release of the mother of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Speaking while reviewing House activities for the outgoing 2012 at the Assembly complex in Asaba yesterday, the Speaker said the state's police commands’ former Head of Anti-Kidnap Squad, Adeyemi Osamwonyi, planted the seed of the crime in the state.
According to the Speaker, periodic assessment of the activities of the state command, gave the House the strength and vigour to tackle the challenge posed by hoodlums before Osamwonyi was kicked out of the state.
He said: “We have not reversed our resolution on CSP Adeyemi Osamwonyi over the kidnapping activities in the state. The seed he planted has since germinated and it is growing every day, the effect of which we are all experiencing today.
“While we lament the manifest challenges of insecurity”, he continued, “that have befallen our country in recent times, kidnapping and terrorism has become a thriving business. It was in response to this that we passed the Anti-Kidnapping and Anti-Terrorism Bills to adequately stem the tide of a recurring malady. Kidnapping is a manifestation of desperado which also makes it imperative to apply desperate measures to tackle it.”
The House six months ago, in a desperate measure to stem the tide of the crime in the state, passed a resolution demanding re-arrest of CSP Osamwonyi and full scale investigation into the involvement of the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Parry Osayande.
Although, the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, reacted by saying he has no substantial fact to connect the CSP to the alleged offence, he however urged anybody with useful information to nail him to volunteer it, even as he redeployed the CSP to one of the Northern state.
The Speaker who summarised the legislative engagement of the House among the 12 bills passed in the outgoing year, seven of which have been assented to and five awaiting assent of the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, said the overriding need to represent Deltans spurred their resolution against the CSP and failed contractors.
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