Gideon Arinze in Enugu
The Enugu Police Command have arrested a total of fifteen male suspects for their involvement in various criminal activities including conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, rape, unlawful possession of firearms and fraudulent acts between May and June 2023 across the state.
Parading the suspects yesterday, Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, (PPRO), Mr. Daniel Ndukwe, that the arrests led to the rescue of seven kidnapped victims and the recovery of seven firearms, two motor vehicles, one motorcycle, one dagger and a cash sum of N701,000.
“Police operatives of the command, serving in Igbo-Eze North Division, with active assistance from forest guard and neighbourhood watch group, on June 25 at about 1p.m., rescued four kidnapped victims (two males and two females, names withheld), after an intense gun fight with the kidnappers in a forest at Aishi-Ette in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area,” he said.
He explained that the kidnappers abandoned the victims due to the superior firepower of the operatives.
“However, one of the victims sustained a gunshot wound in his left thigh during the duel, but was moved to the hospital, is responding to treatment and in stable condition; while others and all the operatives returned unscathed,” he explained.
Among those arrested by the operatives for kidnapping are Uche Nnanna Ede aged 21, Paschal Chukwu aged 25, Moses Uchechukwu Nnaji aged 20, of Agbani and Joshua Okonkwo aged 22.
Ndukwe said that the various arrests were made with support from other security forces and law-abiding citizens in the state while also commending the officers for their efforts at protecting lives and property of residents in the state.
