The Delta State Police Command has secured the release of a kidnapped victim, who was abducted in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.
A statement signed by the spokesperson of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, on Friday, said operatives of the Oghara Division received information that one Mohammed Sekinat was kidnapped by a three-man gang.
According to him, the police team, who went on an intelligence-led investigation discovered the kidnappers’ den along Pan Ocean road by Koko junction.
He said the gang members abandoned their victim on sighting the police while the operatives captured one of the suspects identified as Emuesiri Umukoro.
“On 05/10/021 at about 0730hrs the Command received information from a distressed caller (name withheld) that on 04/10/021 at about 2330hrs, while he was driving to Lagos in a Futon Truck with reg No. FST 345 YD in the company of his girlfriend one Mohammed Sekinat ‘f’ aged 27yrs, he was blocked along Koko road junction Oghara by a three (3) man armed robbery/kidnapping gang.
“He disembarked from the vehicle and escaped while the hoodlums forcefully took his girlfriend away into the bush. Operatives of the Oghara Division were immediately dispatched to the area
“The operatives who went on intelligence-led investigation located their hideout along Pan Ocean road by Koko junction. The gang members on sighting the Police teams took to their heels abandoning the kidnapped victim but one of the suspects Emuesiri Umukoro ‘m’ aged 27, was arrested.
“The victim identified the suspect as a member of the gang who kidnapped her. Manhunt for the fleeing members of the gang is ongoing,” he added.
