The Benue State Police Command has nabbed the kingpin of a kidnap syndicate, Achobo Samuel, that specialised in kidnapping women.
Parading the suspect at the command headquarters in Makurdi, the command’s Spokesperson, Catherine Anene, said that the kingpin was smoked out of his hideouts.
His arrest came barely five days after two members of his syndicate were arrested.
Anene said, “If you remember two members of his gang were apprehended in Makurdi in their hideouts last week and they confessed to the crime.
“Today the kingpin was arrested by men of operation Zenda, if you recall, the Commissioner of Police promised to arrest the kingpin, now he has been arrested and confessed to the crime.”
The suspected kingpin told journalists that they specialised in kidnapping women because they were easy to kidnap.
He regretted causing the demolition of the house linked to the former Chief Judge of Benue State, late Justice Iorhemen Hwande who he described as his uncle.
“The late Chief Judge was my uncle and I have been working with his son for the past six years as sales boy selling tiles.
“I started the kidnapping business last year. We are three; the other two have been arrested but I regret my action especially causing the demolition of my uncle’s house,” Samuel said.
The state government on Friday demolished the four-bedroom house with a boy’s quarter linked to the former Chief Judge in line with the law of the state that any house used by kidnappers as their hideouts must be demolished.
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