Police Rescue Kidnap Victim From Forest In Rivers

Rivers State Police Command said it had rescued one Enyindah Lawson-Ndu who was kidnapped at Elelenwo community in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State last Thursday.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Sp Nnamdi Omoni, who disclosed this in a statement, on Wednesday, said the victim was rescued in a forest in Kono-Boue in Khana Local Government Area of the state while operatives of the command were in search of the hoodlums, who had killed three persons in the area.

Omoni said they ran into Lawson-Ndu where he was tied up and immediately took him for medical attention.

The spokesman also disclosed that investigation into the killing of about three people in Kono-Boue on Tuesday had commenced in compliance.

The statement named those killed in Kono-Boue as “Namene Kialede (30) Muaka Ikara (42) and Kingsley Kponee”.

While acknowledging that no arrest had been made on the killing, the police spokesman assured that efforts were “seriously on to arrest the perpetrators”.