By Tina Amanda
The Anti-kidnapping unit of the Rivers State Police Command of mini-Okoro, Port Harcourt, on Friday night, 27 October 2023, arrested the bolt driver, Kelechi Uzor, over the missing case of Miss Elizabeth Edoukumor, whom he dropped off at Harmony Estate, Eliozu, Port Harcourt, on 9 October 2023.
The arrest by Anti-kidnapping comes barely forty-eight hours after the bolt driver voluntarily reported himself to the Okporo Police Station.
A Human Rights Activist and National Coordinator of Centre for Basic Rights Protection And Accountability Campaign, Prince Wiro, who led Uzor to voluntarily submit himself to Okporo Police Division to aid Police investigation, confirmed to our Correspondent that the bolt driver was arrested by the Anti-kidnapping unit on Friday night at the Okporo Police Division.
Wiro disclosed that personnel of the Anti-kidnapping unit after a brief talk with the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Okporo Police Station, handcuffed the bolt driver and whisked him to the Anti-kidnapping unit.
He however called for an encompassing investigation which should include the bolt driver, the relative where the bolt driver took the missing girl, and the Harmony estate.
In a statement on Saturday 27, October 2023, Wiro said the Harmony estate should make available the CCTV footage and the access register, containing login and log-out of visitors to the Police on that fateful day to ascertain if the bolt driver and the missing girl left the estate together or differently.
He assured that his organization would monitor the development in the case, adding that anyone found culpable in the course of the investigation should be dealt with in accordance with the law.
Kelechi Uzor had in an earlier interview with journalists stated that he only took the missing girl, Elizabeth Edoukumor from the Eastern by-pass to Harmony estate, dropped her, and left, after which the girl’s sister booked him on that fateful day.
He also denied culpability in the disappearance case of the girl.
