The Police Command in Edo on Saturday recovered the bodies
of two kidnapped victims allegedly killed by their abductors.
According to the command, the deceased were kidnapped by
suspected Fulani herders on Jan 1 and killed on Jan 7.
DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, the Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO) in the state, told newsmen during the exhuming of the bodies that the
victims were on their way from the East to Lagos when they were kidnapped.
Nwabuzor said that on March 4, the command’s Anti Kidnapping
and Cyber Crime Unit, received a petition from a lawyer representing the Lord’s
Chosen Church, in Lagos on the matter.
He said the petitioner had stated that on Jan 1, at about
2:30 a.m., two of the church members, Basil Odoji and Innocent Udoh, were
kidnapped at Ahor By-pass on Benin-Auchi Expressway on their way to Lagos.
“Our operatives swung into action and arrested one Abdullahi
Usman, aged 22 years at Aduwawa, Benin, and recovered one itel phone belonging
to Innocent Udoh, one of the victims.
“The suspect confessed to being a kidnapper and said that he
and his gang members killed Basil Odoji and Innocent Udoh after seven days of
captivity.
“Thereafter he led the police operatives to Ahor community
where two of his gang members, Abdul Kadiri, aged 21 years; and Mohammed Lawan,
aged 25 years, were arrested.
“The three suspects confessed to kidnapping and murdering
the victims”, he said.
He further said that the Edo Commissioner of Police (CP),
Lawan Jimeta, had sympathised with the families of the victims while assuring
them that justice would take its course.
“In spite of COVID-19, the command is still working and
remains committed to ensuring that it’s constitutional duties are carried out,”
Nwabuzor said.
The suspects told newsmen in the jungle, about two
kilometres from Ahor bye-pass, off Benin-Auchi Expressway where they killed the
victims, that they committed the crime.
They claimed that they were from Kaduna State and had been
in Edo for more than one year.
They also disclosed that they were herders before being
recruited into the kidnap gang by the leaders who they simply identified as
Musa and Bello, now at large.
The suspects also said that theirs was a seven-man gang, and
claimed that the two victims were killed by one of the leaders because the
victims shouted and tried to escape.
The bodies of the victims have been taken to a mortuary.
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