On Wednesday the 27th of November,2024 at about 2145hrs, acting on a distress call from the command’s control room over a kidnap incident along DLA road in Asaba where four armed hoodlums operating in a Toyota Camry 2.4 Model Reg. No. Enugu BLF 490 AA kidnapped one male and a female victim (Names withheld) and a Toyota Camry vehicle belonging to a woman was also taken by the hoodlums.
The Commissioner of Police CP Olufemi Abaniwonda upon receipt of this information directed the commandās Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad to ensure that the hoodlums are arrested and victims rescued.
The commander CSP Labe Joseph led operatives from the unit and embarked on an intelligence-led operation, trailed the suspected kidnappers to Ezenei by Asaba/Benin Expressway, the hoodlums who upon sighting the police team closing in on them, zoomed off and diverted to Oko Market Road in a bid to escape but the team courageously chased after the hoodlums forcing the hoodlums to jump out of their vehicles, hurriedly took to their heels and fled into the nearby bush with bullet injuries abandoning the cars. Upon search of their operational vehicle, one AK-47 rifle with a defaced breach number, two pump action guns, one magazine, eight (8) rounds of AR live ammunition, twenty-one (21) rounds of live cartridges concealed under the suspectsā engine compartment were recovered, exhibits in custody while the investigation in progress.
The CP assures residents that the command will go all out to ensure that the fleeing suspects are arrested and brought to book.
SP. EDAFE BRIGHT, ANIPR, FCIA, FIPMD
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
DELTA STATE COMMAND,
ASABA.
