For everything there is a season, a time to rob and a time
to be caught by the police. And so was the story for the gang of
notorious kidnappers that specialises in the Kidnapping and sale of
children. The syndicate were nabbed by the men of the Inspector General
of Police’s Special Intelligence Response Team(IRT).
It was gathered that the suspects identified as Kenneth
Anaba, Emmanuel Izuchukwu, Ikechukwu Ajagbu, Joshua Samuel, Emmanuel
Azumara, Chinedu Samuel, Ukonu Anurika, Chidinma Okpara, Chimezie Okpara
and Favour Christopher, were caught
after members of the gang kidnapped
a woman in September 2018, in Aba, Abia State, and collected a ransom
of $13,000 (approximately N4.7million Naira) from the hostage’s Family
before she was released.
Apparently, this act was their final straw as the Inspector
General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, had received several complaints about
the gang’s activities in the state. The IGP ordered operatives of the
IRT headed by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to track down
the suspects.
It was also Confirmed that some members of the gang were
part of a group of kidnappers that escaped from Abia State Police
Command’s Criminal Investigation Department in 2017.
During their escape, they stole some police rifles and went on to form different dangerous kidnapping gangs across the state.
It was further gathered that following the IGP directives,
IRT operatives stormed Abia State and they interacted with some
kidnapped victims. They discovered that the leader of one of the gangs
terrorising the state, Kenneth Anaba, was part of the group of the
inmates who escaped from Abia State Police Command’s State Criminal
Investigation Department with police rifles, in 2017.
The detectives learnt that Anaba’s gang broke up and the other faction began to kidnap and sell little children.
Anaba was trailed to his hideout at Ogbor Hill area of Abia
State and he was arrested. Upon his arrest, an AK-47 rifle belonging
to the police was recovered from him and he confessed to have carried
out several kidnappings in Abia State.
“I was arrested early last year with Some of my friends and
I kidnapped a man with my car along Force Road and we took the man to
our camp at Ogbor Hill, where he was kept for four days until a ransom
of N500,000 was paid.
“My share of the money was N150,000; I also took possession
of the man’s vehicle, a Toyota Highlander, which I took to a hotel
around Ogbor Hill. The police tracked the vehicle to where I was and I
was arrested. I was detained at State CID, Umuhia, and I led the police
to arrest my Gangmember known as Chikodi Akoma, who introduced me to
kidnapping,” he said.
Revealing how he was able to escape with his cohort, Anaba
said, “While we were kept in custody the gate of the cell was locked by a
weak Padlock and we broke and opened it, Smartly Overpowered the Police
and stole five police rifles and escaped. I went to Aba where I started
robbing people with the guns we stole.”
He explained how he recruited his friends to join his notorious gang and they began rob in the state.
While his second Group specializes in Kidnapping little
children and selling to some Group of women for about 300k per Child,
The Women will sell to couples without Children for as much as
1.5million per child.ADD YOUR COMMENT
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