The Bayelsa State government yesterday said the arrest of suspected kidnappers operating in the state was attributable to the facelift given to the security issues in the state.
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Showing posts with label Kidnappers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kidnappers. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Police Give Reasons For Arresting Kidnappers
Security Adviser to the Governor, Lt.-Col. Bernard Kenebai (rtd), disclosed this yesterday in Yenagoa, he lauded the state police command for arresting three of the five suspected kidnappers that abducted five construction workers last week at Opuama in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Forget Boko Haram, Lagosians live in the fear of kidnappers
Before now, the notoriety of kidnappings was loudest in the South-South and South-East regions of Nigeria because of neglect by the government and mass unemployment. But FRANCIS SUBERU reports that the crime has assumed new dimensions in Lagos and other parts of the country.
Fears of two criminal activities gripped Lagos, Nigeria’s former capital city and the commercial and economic hub of the country in the second quarter of this year. While the first, a rumoured planned attack of the Boko Haram terrorist group, was nipped in the bud, the other, kidnapping for ransom, gained ground and is still keeping residents on the edge.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Female kidnappers fed me bread for 13 days – Victim
A 43-year-old trader, Mrs. Christiana Gbadamosi, who was kidnapped on June 22, 2013, in Ikorodu, Lagos State, has been released by her captors.
PUNCH Metro had reported on June 28 that the victim was kidnapped on her way to her shop and the kidnappers had demanded N25m ransom from her husband, Mufutau.
Christiana, who was released on July 4, 2013, 13 days after her abduction, told our correspondent that she initially thought she was abducted for ritual purpose.
She said, “On that fateful day, I was heading to my shop at Ayangburen Road, near Oba Palace, Ikorodu, around 8am.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Kidnappers quized my mother on subsidy payments'- Okonjo Iweala
“I can’t give all the details because we don’t want to compromise ongoing investigations. But I can tell you one thing: my mother suffered a great deal during this ordeal. It was only the Almighty that rescued her from a situation that could very easily have ended tragically. Apart from the emotional trauma of being violently taken away from her family and kept incommunicado for five days in a strange environment, a woman of 83 years was left without food for five days.
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