The command’s spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Warri, Delta State, on Wednesday.

Edafe stated that the victim (name withheld) reported the incident to the police and narrated how he escaped from his assailants.

He stated: “At about 2130hrs on January 22, a kidnap victim reported that he was kidnapped on Esiso Street, Agbarho.

“He further explained that he escaped from his abductors, while they were transferring him into another vehicle.

“On January 23, the victim spotted one of the hoodlums and immediately alerted the Agbarho Divisional Officer (DPO), CSP Samuel Ogwa.

“The DPO swiftly mobilised and led operatives to the area, where one Godstime Rufus, 22, was arrested,” he said.

Edafe added that Rufus later led the operatives to their hideout, where two other suspects, including Stanley Efeme, 21, and Davidson Esiso, 35, were arrested.

He explained that the matter was currently being investigated and that the suspects would soon be arraigned.

Source: NAN

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DSP Bright Edafe, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of the command, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Warri.

Edafe also said that one of the suspects, Emuesiri Umukoro, was apprehended by the operatives of Oghara Police Division, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.

He said that the police operatives, acting on intelligence information on the abduction, stormed the hideout of the criminals in the Pan Ocean Road, Koko Junction, to rescue the victim.

“On October 5, 2021, at about 0730 hrs, the command received information from a distressed caller (name withheld), that on October 4, 2021, at about 2330 hrs, while he was driving to Lagos in a Futon Truck with Registration Number: FST 345 YD in company of his girlfriend, he was blocked at Koko Road Junction, Oghara, by a three-man armed robbery and kidnapping gang.

“He disembarked from the vehicle and escaped while the hoodlums forcefully took his girlfriend away into the bush,” Edafe said.

The PPRO explained further that operatives of Oghara division were immediately dispatched to the area to rescue the kidnapped victim, identified as “Mohammed Sekinat”.

Edafe said that the hoodlums, on sighting the Police team, abandoned the victim and took to their heels.

“One of the suspects, Umukoro (aged 27), was arrested. The victim identified the suspect as a member of the gang that kidnapped her,” he said.

The police spokesman said that the command had intensified manhunt for the fleeing members of the gang.

Source: NAN

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