Nigeria: Police Barricade Kidnap Gang in Delta

23 February 2013

Police in Delta State barricaded a three man kidnap gang, which abducted the wife and daughter of the chairman, Finance and Appropriation Committee of Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Daniel Mayuku, Saturday morning, at Effurun, Uvwie Local Government, and shot dead one of kidnappers in a gunfight.

Wife of the lawmaker, Mrs. Oritsejsemaye Mayuku, was shot on her right leg, but doctors extracted the pellets, yesterday. She was driving with her 10 -year-old daughter, Moshe Mayuku, in a KIA SUV, registration number, AJ 749 KRK, when they were seized at Delta Steel Company, DSC, roundabout, Effurun, along the East-West Road at about 7.30 am.

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