The Department of State Services has apprehended Stanley Onoriode Ekemaye, who allegedly masterminded the abduction of Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme of the Court of Appeal, Benin division.
According to a report in a national daily, Vangard, Justice Nwosu was abducted on October 30 after she was trailed from Ramat Park end of the Benin-Agbor road in Edo State.
The judge said her police orderly was killed by her abductors and she regained her freedom two weeks later.
The newspaper reports further DG Ekemaye, was arrested by DSS in the early hours of Tuesday at Okwuzi Egbema in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
DSS alleged that Ekemaye, who was variously described as a ‘notorious criminal’ the secret police, had been coordinating robbery and kidnap operations around the Delta, Edo and Rivers axis for years.
