NOTORIOUS KIDNAP GANG, WHO SPECIALISES IN SELLING CHILDREN NABBED POLICE
A police source further told City Round that some members of the gang were part of a group of kidnappers that escaped from Abia State Police Command’s Criminal Investigation Department in 2017.
Sources said that, following the IGP directives, IRT operatives stormed Abia State and they interacted with some kidnapped victims. They discovered that the leader of one of the gangs terrorising the state, Kenneth Anaba, was part of the group of the inmates who escaped from Abia State Police Command’s State Criminal Investigation Department with police rifles, in 2017.
The detectives learnt that Anaba’s gang broke up and the other faction began to kidnap and sell little children.
Anaba was trailed to his hideout at Ogbor Hill area of Abia State and he was arrested with the help of one of his girlfriends. Upon his arrest, an AK-47 rifle belonging to the police was recovered from him and he confessed to have carried out several kidnappings in Abia State.
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