The Delta State, Commissioner of
Police,Mr Ikechukwu Aduba said from the series of kidnap cases
investigated by the police, the emerging pattern showed involvement of insiders
and described the development as shocking, said: “Brothers now plot and kidnap
brothers in the state to extort money from their parents, while children set up
their parents for kidnappers.”
He went further to say “there is no state that it is crime free. It
is not where you have one or two crimes, you generalize it that there is crime
everywhere. We have a very strong anti-crime mechanism in the state. Twenty
four hours, our men on always on the street.”
According to him, “recently in the
state, a kidnapped victim in Warri and all of them who kidnapped him, including
an undergraduate, were found to be children of same parents. They stage-managed
the kidnap to defraud their own father.
“When we told their father that there
was an insider’s factor, he did not believe. It involved the entire family. He
thought we were joking, but three of his sons were involved. Even the one
kidnapped was part of the game. The man broke down when the facts unfolded
before him.
“There was also a particular case in
which a boy wanted to dupe his father of N30 million that he had been
kidnapped. At the end of the day, we retrieved the boy in a native doctor’s
place.”
Aduba said police were not magicians
and needed information from members of the public.
He said:“We follow up, but when the
people chicken out, what do you expect the police to do? The one in Issele-Uku,
we were following up, all of sudden, the family chickened out.’’
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