Nigeria: Three Kidnappers Meet Their Waterloo in Owerri

24 January 2011

Three dare devil kidnappers, who stormed the Emekuku, Owerri North local council area country home of the Minister of Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Ihenacho, with the intent of kidnapping his elder brother were Monday morning killed by the police.

The police also arrested three other suspects allegedly involved in kidnapping and armed robbery, as well as rescued a four-year old boy and another man, who had earlier been kidnapped by the hoodlums and kept in a thick forest close to Umuneke Ngor.

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