Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have neutralised one suspected kidnapper while three others were arrested with various degrees of gunshot injury.
The police team also recovered one AK-47
rifle, one double barrel locally made gun, 18 rounds of ammunition and a
suspected stolen GLK Benz from the suspects.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on
Sunday at a hotel in Agbarho, the Ughelli North Local Government Area of the
state.
Police sources said following reports of
kidnapping and armed robbery operations in Ughelli, Warri and environs, the
state Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations), Johnson Adenola, mandated all
divisional police officers in the command to gather intelligence and tackle the
menace.
It was gathered that around 1pm on Sunday,
the command received information that members of an armed robbery gang that
snatched one AK47 rifle from a police officer and also kidnapped and killed one
Godspower Emmanuel after collecting N400,000 ransom, were seen at a hotel in
Agbarho.
The Divisional Police Officer, Aladja
Division, CSP Aliyu Shaba, reportedly mobilised and led detectives to the area
in search of the hoodlums.
The suspects, who sighted the policemen from
their hideout, were said to have opened fire on them.
In the ensuing gun duel, one of the suspects
simply identified as Felix alias ‘OBJ’ was shot and later confirmed dead at the
hospital, while three other suspects namely Stephen Precious (19), Godstime
Sunday (28) and Apene Prince (28) were arrested with various degrees of bullet
injury.
Confirming the incident, the state Police
Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, listed exhibits recovered from the
suspects as including one AK 47 rifle with breech no. 19617, 18 rounds of
7.62mm ammunition, one English double barrel gun, 11 Android phones, two button
phones, one long knife, one suspected stolen white coloured GLK Mercedes Benz
with number plate YAB 733 BK, two bottles of codeine and two wraps of a
substance suspected to be Indian hemp.
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