Gang leader of kidnappers who specialise in the abduction of women in parts of Benue State, North-Central Nigeria has been arrested.
The Command Public Relations Officer, Catherine Anene who identified the suspect as Achobo Samuel said that the kingpin was arrested a few days after two other members of the gang were arrested.
The suspect was said to have escaped when men of Operation Zenda stormed their hideouts in a house linked to the former State Chief Judge, late Justice Iorhemen Hwande.
The suspect told newsmen that women were easy to abduct and regretted causing the demolition of the house linked to the former Chief Judge of Benue State, who he described as his uncle.
“He (late Chief Judge) was my uncle and I have been working with his son for the past six years as sales boy selling tiles.
“I started the kidnap business last year, we are three, the other two have been arrested but I regret my action especially causing the demolition of my uncle’s house,” Samuel said.
It will be recalled that the State Government demolished the four bedroom house with a boys quarter linked to the former Chief Judge for being suspects hideout for their nefarious activities.
The law of the state provides that any house found to be a hideout for suspected kidnappers will be demolished.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
