Police can’t find kidnap victim despite arrest of abductors

City Voice Published: September 25, 2014

Weeks after four members of a kidnap gang were arrested by operatives of Edo State Police Command, the whereabouts of their victim still remain unknown to the police. 

Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Foluso Adebanjo, made this known on Tuesday in Beninwhile parading 46 suspects arrested for various crimes ranging from armed robbery, unlawful possession of firearms, kidnapping, stealing, rape to defilement.

The four suspected kidnappers, Lucky Ogbeifun, Augustine Patrick, Okundia Austin and Vincent Aighobhi, allegedly abducted their victim, a woman whose identity was not revealed, with her driver on 2 September, in Delta State.

“The woman’s Toyota Prado Jeep was also driven away. Through covert itelligence, the operatives of Edo command recovered the Prado Jeep and two other vehicles and arrested four suspects. The suspects confessed to the crime,” Adebanjo said.

A police source said runaway members of the kidnap gang had demanded N80 million ransom from the victim’s family.
Also commenting on the 50 year-old man who hacked two children to death with a machete at Okha II community in Ikpoba-Okha local government area of the state last week, Adebanjo said effort was on to get the fleeing murderer arrested.
Adebanjo who thanked the media and the people of the state for their support, called for more collaboration from all to make the state safer.

Items recovered from the suspects were 20 assorted guns, 192 live Cartridges, nine vehicles and 12 machetes.