Rivers — Unknown gunmen who specialise in kidnap of innocent citizens for ransom were yesterday apprehended by the Rivers State police command following a decisive and humanitarian role played by a group of motorcyclists popularly known as Okada riders in the state.
Briefing newsmen on the incident yesterdsay ,the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Bala Hassan, said the two victims of the same parents, Theophillus Wellinton (8 years) and Belema Wellinghton (6 years) were with their mother when the hoodlums accosted them on their way to Groove International Private School in Port Harcourt.
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