Three suspects arrested
The long arm of the law has finally caught up with the abductors of three Uniport students as the suspected criminals have been apprehended by the police.
The undergraduate graduate students, Joy Adoki, Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obimba were kidnapped and killed on April 7, 2020.
Following the report to the police, members of the Anti-Cultism Unit of Rivers State police command swung into action, leading to the arrest of members of suspected kidnap gang.
One of the suspects, Friday Akpan, who spoke to newsmen, said they abducted the victims on the order of one Bright, who told them that the victims betrayed him after money was paid into the account of one of them.
The arrested suspect confessed that they killed and buried the three undergraduates after raping the female among them, Joy Adoki.
Allan led the police a shallow grave in Etoo, Eleme Local Government area of Rivers state, where they had dumped the bodies of their victims where were in various stages of decomposition.
According a report by LIB/ Bodedolu Report, the spokesperson of the Rivers State Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), had disclosed during a briefing in Port Harcourt that the Anti-Cultism Unit led by its commander, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Collins Shadar, effected the arrest.
Omoni stated that following discreet investigation by the Shadar-led team, the suspects were arrested and one of them led the police to the place where the undergraduates were killed and buried.
The PPRO stated that an AK 47 rifle, pistol, three magazines, 72 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the suspects.
The decomposed bodies of the victims were exhumed by the police while investigation is ongoing.
