Edo Council Imposes Curfew Over Kidnapping

Fear  of kidnapping which become a day affair has forced the Igarra Community, headquarters of Akoko-Edo local government area to impose a curfew from 9 pm to 6 am and have restricted all night burial dances to between 4 and 6 pm.

This came barely 24 hours after the wife of the chairman of a youth goup in the community, Ubani Okuo was kidnapped on Tuesday night while arriving at his house from a shop in the town.

The kidnapping of the wife of Okuo came about 24 hours after seven indigenes of Imoga community in the same council were released by kidnappers on Monday evening after the payment of an undisclosed ransom.

A town crier was deployed by the traditional ruler who said a girl was few days earlier kidnapped in another location in Igarra before the wife of Okuo and they are still with their captors.

Speaking on the development, HRH Oba Adeche Saiki, the paramount ruler of Igarra/Akuku Clan said, “It is true, we suspect that these bad people now stay with us and may even be drinking with our people before they carry out their acts in the night.

It is a joint agreement between the local government area chairman, the police and the traditional institution. It is expected to be carried out in the whole of the local government area.”

Confirming the kidnap, the Edo State Command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Eno Ikoedem said “We received a case of suspectsd kidnapping. The Commissioner of Police has ordered Divisional Police Officers in the area to join hands in the rescue effort.