Three out of eight suspected kidnappers of an Owerri based lawyer, Chima Eze, have been arrested by the Anti-kidnapping Unit of the Imo State Police Command.
The suspects, whose names were given as Chimebere Nwangborogwu, 25, Peter Aluo, 28, and Ikechukwu Nwokejiezi, 41, were paraded by the spokesman of the Imo State Police Command, Orlando Ikeokwu at the command’s headquarters in Owerri on Wednesday, after their camp at Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state was stormed by the officers.
Ikeokwu said: “Pursuant to multiple cases of Kidnappings, especially the kidnap of Barr Chima Eze of Number 2, St Silas Anglican Church Road, MCC Road, Owerri North LGA of Imo state on February 27 and Chimankpa Nwosu of Amauzari in Isiala Mbano LGA of which the Kidnappings demanded N50m and N15m, respectively.
“On February 2, at Mbieri in Mbaitoli LGA, Imo State, as a result of painstaking and diligent investigation, operatives of the command swung into action and arrested these súspects.’
