Some suspected armed Kidnapping gang was recently engaged by Delta State Police after a distress call was received.
Acting on the distress call from the command’s control room over a kidnap incident along DLA road in Asaba where four armed hoodlums operating in a Toyota Camry 2.4 Model Reg. No. Enugu BLF 490 AA kidnapped one male and a female victim (Names withheld) and a Toyota Camry vehicle belonging to a woman was also taken by the hoodlums.
According to Delta State PPRO, SP Edafe Bright, in his Press Release, the command’s Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad promptly moved into action to ensure that the hoodlums are arrested and victims rescued. The commander CSP Labe Joseph led operatives during this intelligence-led operation, trailed the suspected kidnappers to Ezenei by Asaba/Benin Expressway, the hoodlums who upon sighting the police team closing in on them, zoomed off and diverted to Oko Market Road in a bid to escape but the team courageously chased after the hoodlums forcing the hoodlums to jump out of their vehicles, hurriedly took to their heels and fled into the nearby bush with bullet injuries abandoning the cars. Upon search of their operational vehicle, one AK-47 rifle with a defaced breach number, two pump action guns, one magazine, eight (8) rounds of AR live ammunition, twenty-one (21) rounds of live cartridges concealed under the suspects’ engine compartment were recovered, exhibits in custody while the investigation in progress.
Delta State Commissioner of Police , CP Olufemi Abaniwonda assures residents that the command will go all out to ensure that the fleeing suspects are arrested and brought to book.
