Police Arrest 10 Suspected Kidnappers, Destroy Camp In Rivers

Police in Rivers State have arrested 10 suspected kidnappers during a raid of their camp in Port Harcourt.

The team was led by the commissioner of police, Olatunji Disu, accompanied by the deputy commissioner of police operations Adepoju Olugbenga and some area commanders as well as heads of tactical units, DPOs and officers of the command.

LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that the hoodlums were arrested  when the operatives combed the vast bush and its environs behind the Adokiye-Amiesimaka  Stadium at Igwuruta in Ikwerre local government area of the state where kidnappers terrorising Obiri-Ikwerre airport were suspected to be hibernating.

It was also gathered that more than 12 makeshift tents in camps abandoned by suspected kidnappers were destroyed.

Speaking with journalists, the deputy commissioner of police, Adepoju Olugbenga, said the raid and arrest of the suspects was a routine exercise.

Olugbenga said: “It is a routine exercise. The police mostly go to vulnerable points where there are issues of hoodlums trying to disturb the peace of the place.

“It was observed that within the period, there were issues of hoodlums trying to ambush people going to and coming from the airport.”