Operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a deadly kidnap syndicate that abducted and killed a retired Major General, Richard Duru.
The spokesman of the Command, Henry Okoye, made this known when he paraded the suspects and others on Thursday.
Okoye, who paraded 435 suspects on behalf of the Command’s Commissioner, Aboki Danjuma, in Owerri, the Imo State capital, said: “The suspects, Chukwunonso Emmanuel, Okoroigwe Goodness and Innocent Ogu, were arrested in different locations in Imo and Anambra States.
“They confessed to the crime of kidnapping and murdering Major General Duru as well as being members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra/Eastern Security Network.”
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Okoye disclosed that the police also recovered 48 different firearms, 552 various calibers of live ammunition, and several stolen vehicles from the suspects, adding: “Additionally, 13 kidnapped victims were rescued and N9 million and other properties were recovered from the suspects.”
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