For members of a notorious kidnap gang operating in Port Harcourt, Rivers state have been arrested following the abduction of a woman identified as Mrs. Okotie, who was
kidnapped few weeks ago opposite the Royal House of Grace Church in Port
Harcourt.
The gang was said to have abducted her in the Mazda car they used as operational vehicle.
The victim told the police that she had told the suspects that she was not feeling fine but they did not listen to her.
Fortunately for Mrs. Okotie, the car broke down along the way and the
leader of the gang named Blackie, called for another vehicle, a Nissan
Primera, which arrived shortly after.
“But they did not know that we had got information about them. They were
on their way to the Ornage Waterside when we intercepted them. As soon
as they saw us, they fled and abandoned the woman in the car along with
one of their rifles,”A Police source said.
Few days after the botched kidnapping of Mrs. Okotie, IRT operatives who
were following up on a lead, arrested Gabriel, a taxi driver, around
2.pm on October 12.
When Gabriel, an Akwa-Ibom indigene living at Navy Market Borikiri,
Port-Harcourt was taken in for questioning, he confessed that he had
personally been involved in 15 kidnaps in the last few months in the
state.
