The Delta State Police Command claims to have killed four alleged kidnappers and recovered one AK-47 rifle along a railway line in the state’s Agbarho area.
SP Bright Edafe, the state police spokesperson, said this in a statement issued Monday in Asaba, Delta State’s capital.
“Operatives of the CP Special Assignment team who had earlier arrested one suspect when he was seeking to buy AK-47 rifle ammunition on March 9, 2025.
“The suspect during interrogation revealed the location where the rifle was hidden. The operatives stormed the bush along the railway line in Agbarho, where the gang members, upon sighting the police, engaged the team in a fierce gun duel, during which four suspected kidnappers sustained serious gunshot injuries.
“The injured suspects were taken to the general hospital in Ughelli for treatment but were later confirmed dead by the doctor. and their corpses have been deposited at the hospital mortuary while the effort to trail and arrest the fleeing hoodlums is ongoing,” he said.
Edafe stated that one AK-47 rifle and one magazine were recovered.
In other news, a police spokesman stated that Abdulahi Isah, another kidnapping suspect, was apprehended for kidnapping a woman in Ibusa.
According to him, an Ibusa indigene (name withheld) reported to the Ibusa Police Station that his friend’s wife was kidnapped on March 7, 2025, and that a ransom was paid, and that he was the one who gave the payment and other food supplies to the kidnappers.
“Acting on useful information provided by the said man, the DPO Ibusa Police Station swiftly mobilised the patrol team of the Ibusa division alongside vigilantes and stormed the bush where the suspect Abdulahi Isah was arrested. The suspect is in custody, and the investigation is ongoing,” he added.
He stated that Delta State’s commissioner of police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, remarked that the command’s proactiveness and public cooperation are paying off as crime in the state is being reduced to a bare minimum.
