Sources at Ndiegoro division said
that the policemen, acting on a tip-off, arrested Charles Friday, Kenneth
Ekpendu, Chidozie Samuel and Munachi Ebere at River Lay-out some distance to
the popular Aba abattoir for allegedly kidnapping Chinedu Nwokorie. The said
victim was alleged to have been abducted along Okigwe Road by Akalanna off
Faulks Road Aba.
It was learnt that gang received
ransom of N500, 000 before allowing their victim to go. The victim’s Lexus car,
which was said to have been stolen by the same gang was recovered at Omoba in
Isiala Ngwa South Council of the state.
In a related development, a patrol
team of police officers, attached to Ndiegoro Police Station, while on patrol, recovered
a Toyota Lexus 300 Jeep with registration number KJA 769 DW.
The car, which was snatched from one
Francis along Obohia road Aba, was used in series of robbery operations by
yet-to-be identified gunmen.
N100,000.00, belonging to the victim, two GSM phones, two
live and one shell of AK 47 ammunition were found and recovered from the car
after a police team searched it.
The gunmen were going for an
operation, using the Lexus car as their operational car, when they suddenly
abandoned it on the road. According to them, they abandoned it because they
suspected that policemen were trailing them.
The Abia State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Geoffrey
Ogbonna, who confirmed the arrest of the suspects, said that police were making efforts to unmask the gunmen who
abandoned the Lexus SUV at Obohia axis of the commercial city.
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