POLICE have killed three kidnappers in a shoot-out
in Anambra State last week. Anambra’s Commissioner of Police, Hosea
Karma has however, vowed to smoke out all criminals from their hideouts
in the state.Anambra State Police Spokesman, DSP Okechukwu Ali made the
disclosure during the weekend while briefing reporters at the state SARS
headquarters in Awkuzu.
He disclosed that a woman and her teenage daughter were arrested for
allegedly keeping in their custody, a three-year old daughter of one
Pastor Nwele who was kidnapped by a four-man gang and were negotiating a
ransom payment before their arrest.
While displaying the corpse of the three kidnap kingpins with some
arms and ammunitions recovered from various robbery and kidnap gangs,
Okechukwu gave the name of one of dead three-man gang as Chukwuemeka
Ilo, while two others were yet to be identified.
He also paraded two other members of a kidnap gang who were arrested
by the police while negotiating for a ransom of some workers of Pastor
Chris Oyakhilome who they kidnapped in far away Lagos State and came
down to Anambra state to negotiate for their ransom, adding that one
Chukwuebuka Ohams from Owerri, Imo State was arrested for threatening
to kidnap one Dr. Nwokolo if he fails to surrender the documents of his
landed property to them.
Meanwhile, more than 3,000 villagers residing at home and abroad
converged during the weekend at the home of Onyishi Eze nwa Idoko, the
oldest man in Amaja community, Enugu- Ezike , Igbo- Eze North local
government area, Enugu state over the gruesome murder of Marcel and
Jacinta Aba Ossai .
The couple was murdered in their sleep and their throats slit with a
sharp knife like goats last Monday by yet to be identified killers.
Angry villagers comprising women, old men and youths during their
deliberation over the heinous crime described the killing as “one too
many that cannot be wished away just like that.”
The general assembly convoked at the instance of the traditional
ruler of the community, Igwe Ignatius Atlas Idoko vowed to get to the
root of the matter by engaging all the relevant security agencies to
fish out the killers and ensure that the perpetrators will not go
unpunished.

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