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Nigeria: Police Parade Bayelsa SSG's Wife's Kidnappers
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
20 June 2008
Posted to the web 20 June 2008
Misbahu Bashir
Abuja
Police in Abuja yesterday paraded four persons arrested for allegedly abducting the wife of the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Mrs. Augustina Ekewui.
The Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, while parading the suspected kidnappers, said they were arrested by officers from the Rivers State Police Command based on reliable information received from undisclosed members of the public on their activities.
He said, "On June 1, 2008 on the receipt of a report that gunmen suspected to be militants, had stormed Doxa Family Church, Port Harcourt and kidnapped Mrs. Ekewui, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police drafted the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), team to search and apprehend anybody found to be behind the act. The team traced them to their hideout in Ahoada East Local Government and engaged them in a shootout and successfully rescued the victim unhurt."
Those paraded by the police include Omi Fubara Allaputa 22, Manasseh Ignatius, 22, Okechucku Nwaehihie, 23, Richard Nluman-ze, 21 and Friday Nafiri, 22.
One of the kidnappers who admitted committing the offence, Omi Fubara Allaputa, said he was co-opted into the gang by one Angozi whom he described as a cousin to the SSG..
He said, "I arranged for the vehicle that was used in the abduction, but it broke down somewhere along the road while we were conve-ying her to where she was hidden. Angozi brought a bus which we eventually used in taking her away at night. He demanded the ran-som of N 1 billion from her husband who said he could not afford that amount but agreed to pay the sum of N10 million."
In another development, the police have paraded robbers who allegedly attacked the police conveying money in a bullion van in Aba, Abia State carrying the sum of N328m and injuring three police-men.
IGP Okiro said on June 11, 2008, a bullion van belonging to a private company while conveying money from Spring bank, Aba, to Port Harcourt, was attacked by a gang of robbers numbering about 30 who carted away the said money. He said the robbers were apprehended by a team of Police Mobile Force from Port Harcort, at a farm in Egburo village where they stopped to share the money.
He said, "the police engaged two of the robbers carrying multi-purpose machine guns for about 45 minutes and eventually killed one and arrested someof them while the majority fled."
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Those arrested include an ex-Army officer, Daniel Ewliku 32, Chijioke Steward 30 and the driver of the van. All denied the allegation.
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