Olusegun Ariyo
Suspected kidnappers have reportedly escaped with bullet injuries, just as they abandoned their vehicle and fled into a nearby bush in Asaba, Delta State.
The incident occurred on 27/11/2024 at about 2145hrs, at Oko Market Road, Asaba, Urban Express News Online learnt.
Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe confirmed in a statement on Sunday that the Command’s Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad, led by CSP Labe Joseph recovered from the suspect “abandoned operational vehicle, one AK-47 rifle with a defaced breach number, two pump action guns, one magazine, eight (8) rounds of AR live ammunition and twenty-one (21) rounds of live cartridges concealed under the suspects’ engine compartment.”
The Police image maker said, “On 27/11/2024 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 command’s 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 them hoodlums to jump out of their vehicles, hurriedly took to their heels and fled into the nearby bush with bullet injuries abandoning the cars.”
Edafe said CP Olufemi Abaniwonda had assured residents that the command would go all out to ensure that the fleeing suspects were arrested and brought to book.
