The Nigeria Police Force Intelligence Response Team, has arrested Okechukwu Edison, 42, and Sunday Morison for armed robbery and kidnapping a female lawyer in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State.
After successfully coordinating the kidnapping of a female legal practitioner in the city, the suspects were apprehended by FFIB-IRT on November 10, at Rumuola Junction in Rivers State.
The SunNews reported that further investigations revealed that the suspects, with two other criminal gang members who carried out the kidnapping, had previously spent 11 years in the Nigeria Correctional Service, Imo State, as awaiting trial inmates for the offense of kidnapping.
Confessing to policemen, the suspects said, “we left the correctional facility on Monday April 5, 2022, during the attack on the prison by a group of unknown gunmen, who threw dynamites at the walls of the prison and commanded inmates to flee.
“We went into kidnapping, robbery, and car theft after some armed soldiers invaded and destroyed the oil bunkering site we were making a living from after the jailbreak freedom. We had no alternative as we lost everything that was sustaining our families” he continued”.
They were apprehended after IRT agents received information about the kidnapping of a female lawyer who had been held captive for three days. Police authorities directed their operatives to conduct an immediate search and rescue of the lawyer.
After the lawyer was released, she identified two of the suspects in the Police custody as the people who kidnapped her and stole N5 million from her bank account.
