PHOTOS: Rivers Police Nab Three Kidnappers, Rescue Three-Year-Old Boy

The three arrested suspects

        The Rivers State Police Command has arrested three suspected kidnappers and successfully rescued their abducted victim.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP. Ahmad Kidaya Muhammad, who made this known in a release published on the force Facebook page on Tuesday, said the suspects kidnapped a three-year old male child.

He said police operatives tracked and stormed the kidnappers hideout located at Rumuodogu II, Port Harcourt where the child (name withheld) who was kidnapped on Monday, December 15, was kept.

The force spokesman gave the names of the two suspect initially arrested at their hideout as Ben Elenwo and Ogele Akiyo, adding that the arrest later led to the subsequent arrest of their gang member, Ibezin Isih at another location.

Muhammad explained that the idea of of kidnapping the little child was conceived and initiated by Ogele Akiyo, who is a co-tenants with the victim’s parents in same compound, while Elenwo who posed as the child school teacher executed the kidnapping.

Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Police Command; CP Dan Bature handing over the safely rescued child to his father

The spokesman said the rescued victim has been handed over to his father personally by CP. Dan Bature in his office.
Muhammad, who reiterated the command’s commitment in curbing crime, also assured the people of its readiness to respond to tip off.
He further assured prompt response to distress calls and urged members of the public to give credible and useful information about any suspicious movement.


Meanwhile, a group of armed robbers stormed the Access Bank in Agbor, along old Lagos-Asaba road, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigerian police officers on patrol reportedly ran away for their lives.