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Police Raid Akwa Ibom Forests, Nab 10 Kidnappers Ambushing Chinese Expatriates

by Iniobong Ekponta
1 year ago
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Police operatives, acting on local intelligence, have raided a forest in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and arrested no fewer than 10 suspected kidnappers.

LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered that these individuals were laying an ambush to kidnap Chinese expatriates working for the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC).

The construction firm’s site is located on the Ibiono Ibom/Ikono axis of the Calabar-Itu highway, currently undergoing reconstruction by CCECC, Julius Berger, and other indigenous companies.

The arrest, according to the Youths’ Leader of the area, Comrade Ubong Etim, took place in the early hours of Friday when the tactical police squad stormed the two forests along the Ibiono Ibom axis of the Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene federal highway.

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According to Etim, the kidnappers were using the forests as their hideout and camp for keeping victims while negotiating for ransom.

Efforts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) were fruitless as he neither picked nor returned calls to his phone.

However, a senior police officer, confirming the arrest but pleading anonymity, explained that “the police were able to successfully raid the forests after days of monitoring and surveillance on the community.” He added that “the criminals were overpowered in a gun battle, which lasted for hours.”

He disclosed that four AK-47 rifles, some locally made pistols, and objects suspected to be charms were recovered from the suspects. They have been transferred to the state headquarters at Ikot Akpanabia, near Uyo, “for interrogation and prosecution.”

“Upon interrogation, the suspects confessed that they have been in the area for months now, preparing the hideout, which also serves as their shrine. They also confessed that they were targeting the Chinese expatriates working for CECC, a construction firm handling the reconstruction of one of the phases of the Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene federal highway,” he stressed.


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