One Patrick
Bori who is reportedly specialised in kidnapping elderly persons has been
arrested by officers attached to the Imo State Police Command.
The Tribune
reports that Bori was arrested on Thursday, June 14, 2018, by the Command's
Anti-Kidnapping Squad over the abduction of one Reginald Nkwocha, aged 84,
Adolphus Akagha, aged 94, and Dorathy Nkwo, aged 82.
According to
the reports, the suspect aged 34, carried out his operations with the help of
an accomplice identified as Uchenna Emerenjo.
While
speaking with news correspondents, Bori reportedly confessed to making over
N50m from the kidnapping business.
Explaining
why he preferred elderly victims, the suspect said, “They don’t have the
strength to run away from my den. As you keep them there, so they stay till a
ransom is paid.
"I
don’t have a fixed ransom. The ransom I collect depends on the worth of the
victim. We don’t keep them long for fear of them giving up the ghost.”
The suspect
will be charged to the court upon the completion of the ongoing investigation.
Notorious
kidnap kingpin arrested in Lagos
The Lagos
State Police Command has arrested a notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Solomon,
known popularly as King Solomon, said to be responsible for major abductions in
the state and parts of the south-west.
Vanguard
reports that King Solomon was the bandit who kidnapped a senior Customs officer
in her daughters' presence in the FESTAC Town area of the state as well as being
the brain behind many other high-profile abductions.
The State
Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni while parading the suspect, alleged that he
typically uses his apartment on 46 Canal View Road in the area as a den where
abducted victims were kept.
According to
CP Owoseni, King Solomon was traced by undercover policemen from Festac
Division led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Chief Superintendent
Olukole Oladeinde, on the night of Tuesday, March 14, 2017.
The CP added
that on noticing police presence, he attempted to stab the DPO but was
overpowered and arrested while three suspected members of his gang, who also
attempted to prevent his arrest, were apprehended by policemen, who had
cordoned off the building, while two already abducted victims were rescued.
“Police
undercover agents have been working with information about this suspect. One of
the victims rescued was traced to his house, which served as a haven for
criminal activities and den where kidnapped victims around Festac Town are
kept,” Owoseni said.
During
interrogation, the suspect disclosed that some of his members, who had gone on
a kidnap operation, were yet to return with a targeted personality.
One of his
victims as revealed by him, was the female Customs officer attached to Tin Can
Command SDV, who was abducted in the presence of her two daughters at an eatery
on 22 Road, Festac Town, last December.
Other
victims include a pastor of a Pentecostal Church in Festac, identified simply
as Pastor Nwachukwu, and two traders at Trade Fair.
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