Kidnap Victim Leads SARS to Arrest His Abductors in Anambra After Miraculous Escape
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Anambra, has raided a kidnappers’ hideout at the GRA area of Onitsha and arrested a man and a woman. However, one of the suspected kidnappers escaped during the raid.
The
raid was launched on January 29, 2014, Wednesday, shortly after a
kidnap victim was said to have escaped from the hideout and reported to
the police.
The
victim, unidentified at the time of writing the article, was allegedly
abducted in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state, late
last week and brought into the hideout at Justice Onwuamaegbu Close,
GRA.
The
victim was kept incommunicado for a ransom negotiation. The amount of
ransom was set at N3 million, but the victim managed to escape.
Three
suspects, a male and two females, were said to have been using the
vacant building for the past two
years, right under the nose of the
neighbourhood watch.
The
game was said to have ended for the kidnappers when the male suspect,
who incidentally is an official of GRA Unit of commercial motorcycle
union, was going out and instructed the female suspect to keep an eye on
the victim.
It was gathered that as soon as went out, the victim requested the female suspect to get him water to drink.
By
the time she returned with water, the victim had cleverly untied the
rope on his hands, removed the handcuff on his legs and attacked her,
knocking her out completely before scaling the wall to escape.
Not
long after, the victim returned to the hideout with SARS operatives and
arrested the male and female suspects, while the second female suspect
was on the run.
Popular
transporter, who lives in the neighbourhood, Chief Godwin Okeke, of GUO
Transport Limited, expressed shock that he had been living in the same
Onwuamaegbu Crescent with the dangerous kidnappers. He had himself been
kidnapped five years ago.
Okeke
said the owner of the compound who lives abroad had probably kept the
male suspect to look after the compound, pending when the property would
be rented out.
The police burnt the entire property found in the service quarters of the building, which the kidnappers had been using.
Mr.
Samuel Chukwu, the Chairman of GRA Unit of Commercial Motorcycle Union,
expressed surprise that their official could be linked to the act of
kidnapping.
Mr. Emeka
Chukwuemeka, the State Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the
arrests, adding that the outcome of the on-going police investigations
would determine the next line of action.
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