CP Wale Abass
By Jon Egie
A member of a Kidnap gang that kidnapped a victim at Jakpa Road, Warri has been shot dead by Police Operatives attached to Ebrumede police station of the Delta State Police Command, and the victim rescued.
The Operatives who were on a stop and search operation had flagged down a Lexus Saloon car, Saturday July 29 but the occupants on noticing the police, jumped down from the vehicle with one of them bearing a double barrel gun and took to their heels.
Some of the police operatives gave them a hot chase during which the one bearing the firearm was nuetralized while others escaped.
On a closer look at the abandoned vehicle, a kidnapped victim was seen blindfolded, he was immediately rescued by the operatives and taken to the police station where he stated that he was kidnapped along Jakpa Road, Warri on same date at about 2100hours, when the suspected kidnappers using a tricycle hit his vehicle from behind, and in an attempt to comfront them, they brought out the double barrel gun and forced him into his own vehicle.
Before he was rescued, he had already paid sum of seven hundred thousand naira (#700,000) ransom to their account through bank transfer.
“Victim has been reunited with his family while manhunt for the other fleeing suspects is ongoing.” A statement issued by the Command’s PPRO, DSP Bright Edafe said.
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