Four Suspected Kidnappers, 81 Others in Police Net

Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City
Desmond Ozo, a 32-year-old kidnap suspect yesterday  narrated to journalists how his gang kidnapped a middle-aged woman (names withheld) and also rapped her serially.

Ozo who was arrested alongside three other members of his gang, namely, Innocent Lucky (27), Roland Ode (22) and Friday Dominion (26), kidnapped their victim in Benin.

He said the gang also raped their victim after collecting N2 million ransom from her relations.
“We slept with her several times before we released her. We also collected N2 million ransom.

When asked if he used condom while raping their victim, Ozo said, “I did not use condom when sleeping with her.”
Luck however ran out of them, when they were arrested by operatives of Edo State Police Command on new year day.

Narrating how they were arrested, one of the gang members, Innocent Lucky, said the four of them were driving in their car along Sapele Road, when they were stopped by the police operatives who were on patrol.

The kidnappers were among the 85 suspects arrested for various crimes, ranging from armed robbery, murder, cultism, stealing, impersonation by the Edo State Police Command and paraded by the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Haliru Gwandu.

Briefing journalists, Gwandu, listed items recovered from the suspects paraded to include eight  cars, 191 bags of Indian hemp, cartridges and guns.

Gwandu who disclosed that one Austin Ibeto (45), was also apprehended for impersonating  the police, said the suspect was caught in possession of police ID card bearing his picture and a T-shirt with inscription of F-SARs, Lagos State Command.

According to him, the police fought criminals to a standstill in the State during the yuletide
He admonished members of the public to provide the police useful information that we in order to vigorously fight criminality in the State; adding that the operatives now responds to distress call within three minutes.