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A suspected kidnapper’s gang leader identified as Yusuf Mohammed, in Orokam, Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State has been apprehended by a combined Team of Policemen from Benue and Enugu States
The suspect according to residents of the area has been terrorising some communities in the local government leading the chairman of the local government to impose curfew in the council.
One of the residents, Mike Agbo said that the gang leader and others were apprehended during the week.
“The suspect’s identity was confirmed by three kidnapped victims who revealed that Muhamed was the officer in charge of torture in the kidnappers’ camp.” Agbo declared
Confirming the incident to journalists on Saturday in a telephone chat, chairman of Ogbadibo LGA, Sunday Ajunwa said that the kidnapper’s gang leader was arrested by combined teams of policemen and vigilance group in the area.
The chairman said, “It is true that Yusuf has been arrested by the combined team of Police from Makurdi and Enugu as well as the vigilante in the area.
“He attempted to run but the youths pursued and caught him. Those he kidnapped made a confessional statement of how he tortured them in captivity.”
The chairman added that the suspect alongside 21 other suspects was in police custody.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer for the State Command, DSP, Udeme Edet said she was yet to receive the report.
Edet said, “Please what do you want to confirm, I’m yet to confirm it. When I get news of it, it will be related.”