A notorious female kidnapper, Favour Okonkwo, and her gang members – James Aleato, Ikechukwu Abua and Efe Ono – have been arrested in Delta State.
They were arrested shortly after they abducted one Ibezimakor Chinelo, attached to the Delta State Command of the Nigeria Civil Service Defence Commission.
The hoodlums had sandwiched her in their Delta State taxi colour Jetta car and were whisking her to their hideout before police swooped on them.
The acting Police Public Relations Officer of the Delta State Police Command, Charles Muka, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, who paraded the gang at the command headquarters in Asaba, said operatives closed down on them at along Asaba/Benin Expressway by Oshimili South Local Government Area secretariat, Asaba.
Muka said: “As the team was closing down on the criminals, they attempted to push the victim down.
“In the process, the four suspects, namely, favour Okonkwo (f), James Aleato (m, aged 62), Ikechukwu Abua (m, aged 35) and Efe Ono (m, aged 33) were arrested by Kia Motors near Summit Junction, Asaba.”
He hinted of how the suspects immediately put a call across to her kinsmen to prepare a N10 million ransom, if they must release her unhurt.
While Muka said investigation was on to make them face prosecution, he narrated how firearms were recovered from vicious motorcycle armed robbers.
These are Happy Krokeme and Barrister Akara, popularly known as Solo, in Ughelli axis of the state.
According to him, one Paul Yaovyim of Kpakiama town raised the alarm that the said Happy with two others used unregistered Lifan motorcycle valued N95,000 along Bomdi-Oboro Road to dispossess him of his belongings.
“SARS operatives based at Ughelli swung into action and arrested the said Happy and Solo, and recovered from them one locally made pistol and the unregistered motorcycle,” Muka said.
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