Police bust kidnap gang in Kogi,

– Three members of a notorious kidnap gang that has for a while operated in major cities in Kogi have been arrested
– The leader of the gang who gave his name as Ibrahim Nasarawa, led the operatives of the intelligence response team to their den where there victim was held
– Another kidnap gang was smashed in the Acharu Egume area of Kogi state, leading to the rescue of three kidnap victims
Three suspected kidnappers who were arrested by the police in Kogi state.
Some kidnappers who have been terrorizing Kogi state and its environs have been busted by the state police command.
The arrest of the kidnappers was made possible through special intelligence operation conducted by the operatives of the intelligence response team of the IGP’s monitoring unit at different black spots in Kogi state.
The police in a statement by the force public relations officer, Don Awunah, stated that three members of a notorious kidnap gang that has for a while operated in major cities in Kogi and neighbouring states were trailed and arrested at their hideouts in the outskirt of Egume and Anyimgba towns in Kogi.
According to the statement: “the leader of the gang who gave his name as Ibrahim Nasarawa led the operatives of Intelligence Response Team to their den where Edward Abutu Amedu was held hostage. On sighting the  Operatives, the armed guards who were stationed by the gang to keep watch over their victims opened fire on the Police and the operatives responded and overpowered them in a tactical operation that saw three members of the kidnap gang suffer fatal injuries while their victim was rescued unhurt.”
The police spokesperson stated that following the operation, two policemen sustained gunshot injuries and are currently responding to treatment in the hospital, while the other members of the gang escaped with bullet wounds.
In another rescue operation, three members of a dare-devil kidnap gang that abducted Mrs. Mayo Ohemi, Nichodemus Kadiri and Miss Victoria Abdul from Acharu Egume area of Kogi state have been arrested.
The confession of the culprits led to the rescue of the victims who were incarcerated in the kidnapers’ camp from where they demanded a ransom of twenty million naira.
The rescued victims who sustained various degrees of injuries at the hands of their abductors are now receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
The names of the arrested male culprits were given as Ojonimi Negedu, 32, Awodi Ezekiel, 26, and Micheal Sule.
The police warned that the renewed onslaught on criminal elements in Kogi state will be sustained until all the criminal elements are flushed out of the state.
In another development, the Lagos state police command has exposed the latest tactics being employed by criminals to rob residents particularly at night.
According to PM News, the command’s spokesperson, SP Dolapo Badmos, in an interview on Sunday, July 3, said criminals, in an attempt to rob or kidnap their victims, now engaged in switching off running power generating sets or turned on tap water, to lure them out.
She therefore warned residents not to come out at night if they noticed that taps within their compounds were opened or when their generators suddenly stopped working.