Police arrest 34 for armed robbery, kidnapping in Imo

The police in Imo State have arrested 34 suspects for alleged kidnapping, murder, armed robbery, fraud, rape, conspiracy and theft. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, said among those arrested were members of a notorious gang that specialized in kidnapping, rape and killing young girls after collecting ransom from their families. Galadanchi said the […]

The police in Imo State have arrested 34 suspects for alleged kidnapping, murder, armed robbery, fraud, rape, conspiracy and theft.

The state’s Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, said among those arrested were members of a notorious gang that specialized in kidnapping, rape and killing young girls after collecting ransom from their families.

Galadanchi said the leader of the gang, David Ndubuisi, 24, from Umuneke village in Ngor-Okpala Council Area of the state, confessed that the gang had abducted and murdered over three girls aged 20 to 28 years after raping them.

He said he was arrested after his gang kidnapped one Miss Cynthia Dike, 28, who he said they raped and murdered and thereafter dumped her naked body in the forest. 

Also paraded was a five-man kidnap syndicate that allegedly abducted and murdered a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Amos Akano, from Nkwerre Council Area after collecting N5 million ransom from his family.

Galadanchi revealed that the command also rescued 11 kidnap victims.

He said all the suspects would soon be arraigned in court.