CRIME: POLICE ARREST COUPLE IN ANAMBRA FOR SENDING THREAT MESSAGES
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Kingsley Okoye, 36, and Chidinma Okoye, 27, have been taken into custody by the Anambra State Police Command on suspicion of sending threatening texts and trying to abduct unwary people.
Tochukwu Ikenga, the command’s spokesperson, revealed in a statement on Friday that the two were experts at sending text messages threatening kidnapping and demanding money with the threat of kidnapping or murder.
According to Ikenga, the individuals were taken into custody on Friday by the combined security team, which consists of police and vigilante agents acting on intelligence gleaned from technology.
According to him, the suspects acknowledged committing the crime and destroying some of the SIM cards they had previously used.
The statement read in part, “The Anambra State Police Command is aware and already investigating a related recent trending voice note of a security report on how a victim escaped abduction by an alleged security operative.
“Given reports of text messages and voice notes received by unsuspecting members of the public on threats of abduction and kidnap, the Joint Security Force comprising the Police and AVG acting on technology-driven information in the early hours of today (Friday), arrested a couple, one Mr Okoye Kingsley aged 36 years and Mrs Chidinma Okoye aged 27 years respectively in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State recovers phones and sim cards.
“The couple specialises in sending threatening messages to people and demanding ransom or they shall be abducted or killed. They all confessed to the crime and admitted to destroying some of the sim cards which they had earlier used to commit the crimes.”
He claims that Nnaghe Obono Itam, the state commissioner of police, has ordered the matter to be sent right away to the command’s anti-kidnapping/robbery unit for thorough investigations, and that the accused will be charged in court once the investigations are complete.
Ikenga also reported that the command is aware of and now looking into a recent voice note containing a security report to a police station on how a victim managed to avoid being kidnapped by a suspected security agent.
“The command did not take the information for granted. Hence, activates all the necessary intelligence tools to unmask the suspects and nip the issue in the bud to avoid reoccurrence,” he added.
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