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Lady Kidnapped From Boyfriend Rescued In Delta

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The Police Command in Delta says it has rescued a lady who was forcibly kidnapped when she and her boyfriend were accosted by armed robbers cum kidnappers in Delta State has been rescued.

DSP Bright Edafe, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Warri.

Edafe also said that one of the suspects, Emuesiri Umukoro, was apprehended by the operatives of Oghara Police Division, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.

He said that the police operatives, acting on intelligence information on the abduction, stormed the hideout of the criminals in the Pan Ocean Road, Koko Junction, to rescue the victim.

“On Oct. 5, 2021, at about 0730 hrs, the command received information from a distressed caller (name withheld), that on Oct. 4, 2021, at about 2330 hrs, while he was driving to Lagos in a Futon Truck with Registration Number: FST 345 YD in the company of his girlfriend, he was blocked at Koko Road Junction, Oghara, by a three-man armed robbery and kidnapping gang.

“He disembarked from the vehicle and escaped while the hoodlums forcefully took his girlfriend away into the bush,” Edafe said of the escape of the boyfriend who left her girlfriend behind

The PPRO explained further that operatives of Oghara division were immediately dispatched to the area to rescue the kidnapped victim, identified as “Mohammed Sekinat”.

Edafe said that the hoodlums, on sighting the Police team, abandoned the victim and took to their heels.

“One of the suspects, Umukoro (aged 27), was arrested. The victim identified the suspect as a member of the gang that kidnapped her,” he said.

The police spokesman said that the command had intensified manhunt for the fleeing members of the gang. (NAN)

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