A kidnap kingpin that specializes in abducting women, Achobo Samuel, has been arrested by the Benue State Police Command.
Samuel who claimed to be the nephew of the former Chief Judge of Benue State, late Justice Iorhemen Hwande, was arrested five days after two members of his gang were caught.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Catherine Anene, confirmed Samuel’s arrest while parading the suspects at the command headquarters in Makurdi, according to The Punch.
Anene said, “If you remember two members of his gang were apprehended in Makurdi in their hideouts last week and they confessed to the crime.
“Today the kingpin was arrested by men of operation Zenda, if you recall, the Commissioner of Police promised to arrest the kingpin, now he has been arrested and confessed to the crime.”
Samuel told newsmen that he often kidnaps women because they were easy prey.
Regretting his actions, he recount demolishing the house linked to the former Chief Judge of Benue State, late Justice Iorhemen Hwande whom he said was his uncle.
“The late Chief Judge was my uncle and I have been working with his son for the past six years as sales boy selling tiles.
“I started the kidnapping business last year. We are three; the other two have been arrested but I regret my action especially causing the demolition of my uncle’s house,” Samuel said.
The state government on Friday demolished the four-bedroom house with a boy’s quarter linked to the former Chief Judge in line with the law of the state that any house used by kidnappers as their hideouts must be demolished.
