The Rivers State Police Command has arrested an Air Force personnel and 34 others suspected to be involved in kidnapping, armed robbery and cultism in the state.
The Commissioner of Police, Zaki Ahmed, paraded the suspects at the command’s headquarters, Moscow Road, portharcourt, on Wednesday. He disclosed that the hoodlums were arrested at different locations in the state, following tip off to the command.
According to the police boss, 11 of the suspects were arrested for kidnapping, 14 for armed robbery and three for cultism. One of the kidnap suspects was identified as Wisdom Tennyson, an Air Force officer attached to 407 Air Combat Training Group, Kainji.
The suspect was arrested at a guesthouse, off Bitter Leaf Road, Trans-Amadi, after abducting and raping the victim. Also paraded were Kingsley Nwala, Godbless Ogue and Chukwudi Achor, who confessed to have been the killers of an operative of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS), Inspector Ada Uche, attached to Etche office of outfit. The state police boss warned criminals to “repent, relocate or face justice”, adding that it has not been easy to keep faith to the position, in battling hoodlums in Rivers.
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