Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have rescued two female kidnapped victims and arrested four suspects in connection with an incident in Idemili South Local Government Area of the state.
The spokesman of the Command and a Superintendent of Police, Tochukwu Ikenga, said this in a statement he issued on Wednesday.
Ikenga said that the rescue operation and arrest were carried out by operatives attached to Oba Police Divisional Headquarters in Idemili at 11:54am on Tuesday.
He said: “Police operatives attached to Oba Police Divisional Headquarters of the Idemili South local government area today arrested one notorious kidnapper and three other accomplices after a ransom of N200,000 was paid for the release of the victims in captivity.
“The operatives also rescued two female victims between the ages of 15-19 years in Oba, Idemili South local government area of Anambra State.”
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Ikenga said that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, one Ifechukwu Ibesimako, 19, male, who hails from Aboji village in Oba, and other three accomplices lured their victims through social media chats.
The Police Public Relations Officer said that the suspects proposed friendship to them and then held them hostage until their relatives paid a certain amount to their gang before they were released.
He said that the arrest of the suspect and his accomplices brought more revelations of their criminal activities in the area and a report of another female victim who had already paid ransom and was released months ago.
Ikenga also said that Nnaghe Itam, the Commissioner of Police in the state, used the occasion to caution the teeming youths in the state to be careful of the people they meet on social media.
He said Itam has directed the immediate transfer of the suspects to the Anti-Kidnapping/Robbery Squad of the command for discreet investigations.
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