Police nab 2 kidnappers, rescue female victim in Aba ….Also in Umuahia
Aba—The Eziama Police Division, Aba, Abia State has arrested two kidnappers and rescued a victim, identified as Miss Rachael, in the city.
Miss Rachael, who lives in Port Harcourt Rivers State, was allegedly kidnapped by the two suspects; Chinonso Samuel and John Kingsley, who hails from Amaiyi Nvosi community in Isiala Ngwa South local government of Abia State.
According to the victim, one of the suspects who claimed to have missed his way approached her for direction on her way to Church on Sunday, 9th August, 2015, in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. The first suspect was later joined by the second suspect who persuaded her to assist them find their location.
When the victim told them that she did not know the direction and asked to be left alone as she was on her way to Church, she was allegedly charmed and was no longer conscious of her environment until her rescue by the Police in Aba.
Police sources told Vanguard that a good samaritan who suspected the victim’s company with Samuel and Kingsley in Aba, alerted the Police who arrested the suspects when they could not explain how they met Rachael. After she regained consciousness at the police station, the victim later told her story of how the suspects charmed her on her way to church in Port Harcourt and brought her to Aba.
Police Public Relations Officer, Abia State Command, DSP Ezekiel Onyeke, who confirmed the incident, said the two suspects are now helping the Police in their investigation and will soon be charged to court.
Also yesterday, the timely intervention of the police led to the rescue of a kidnapped victim, Mr. Udo Nwachukwu, from the hands of his abductors in Umuahia. Nwachukwu, from Umuana Ndume Ibeku, Umuahia, and a driver attached to Chief of Staff to the Governor of Abia State, were kidnapped by three gunmen from Umezerolo village square Umuana Ndume, Umuahia, where he was washing a car.
The gunmen, who were said to have come in a green coloured Toyota Camry, took the victim in their car while another member of the gang drove the victim’s Toyota Hilux van with registration number 1 ABSG506.
Luck however ran out on the abductors when neighbours of the victim raised alarm and called the Police control room who immediately alerted all patrol cars.
The kidnappers were pursued by the Police patrol teams who mounted checks around Umuahia and surrounding towns which forced the kidnappers to abandon their victim and his vehicle at a location after the military check-point along Ikwuano road on realizing that the Police were closing in on them.
SOURCE: VANGUARD
Miss Rachael, who lives in Port Harcourt Rivers State, was allegedly kidnapped by the two suspects; Chinonso Samuel and John Kingsley, who hails from Amaiyi Nvosi community in Isiala Ngwa South local government of Abia State.
According to the victim, one of the suspects who claimed to have missed his way approached her for direction on her way to Church on Sunday, 9th August, 2015, in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. The first suspect was later joined by the second suspect who persuaded her to assist them find their location.
When the victim told them that she did not know the direction and asked to be left alone as she was on her way to Church, she was allegedly charmed and was no longer conscious of her environment until her rescue by the Police in Aba.
Police sources told Vanguard that a good samaritan who suspected the victim’s company with Samuel and Kingsley in Aba, alerted the Police who arrested the suspects when they could not explain how they met Rachael. After she regained consciousness at the police station, the victim later told her story of how the suspects charmed her on her way to church in Port Harcourt and brought her to Aba.
Police Public Relations Officer, Abia State Command, DSP Ezekiel Onyeke, who confirmed the incident, said the two suspects are now helping the Police in their investigation and will soon be charged to court.
Also yesterday, the timely intervention of the police led to the rescue of a kidnapped victim, Mr. Udo Nwachukwu, from the hands of his abductors in Umuahia. Nwachukwu, from Umuana Ndume Ibeku, Umuahia, and a driver attached to Chief of Staff to the Governor of Abia State, were kidnapped by three gunmen from Umezerolo village square Umuana Ndume, Umuahia, where he was washing a car.
The gunmen, who were said to have come in a green coloured Toyota Camry, took the victim in their car while another member of the gang drove the victim’s Toyota Hilux van with registration number 1 ABSG506.
Luck however ran out on the abductors when neighbours of the victim raised alarm and called the Police control room who immediately alerted all patrol cars.
The kidnappers were pursued by the Police patrol teams who mounted checks around Umuahia and surrounding towns which forced the kidnappers to abandon their victim and his vehicle at a location after the military check-point along Ikwuano road on realizing that the Police were closing in on them.
SOURCE: VANGUARD
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