{"id":2975,"date":"2014-11-11T07:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2014-11-11T07:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:01:53","slug":"police-arrest-kidnappers-of-diezanis-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2975","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest kidnappers of Diezani\u2019s sister"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Minister<\/a>
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THE Rivers State Police Command has arrested a suspected kidnapper, Benjamin Bob-manuel, who allegedly led the gang that kidnapped Mrs. Osiya Agama, the sister of the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.<\/p>\n

Deltanewsroom.com <\/em>learnt that Bob-manuel, who was apprehended on Sunday at Nembe Waterfront in Port Harcourt, was tracked for several days before he was eventually arrested.<\/p>\n

Agama, who had since regained her freedom, was allegedly abducted by Bob-Manuel\u2019s gang at Leventis Bus-stop, along the Port Harcourt-Aba Expressway on her way home from an evening church service.<\/p>\n

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, who confirmed the arrest of the suspect, added that the Bob Manuel\u2019s accomplice, Whokows Ekine, was apprehended by security operatives on Monday.<\/p>\n

Mohammad disclosed in a statement on Monday that a locally-made pistol and a Toyota Highlander Sports Utility Vehicle were recovered from the hideout of the hoodlums.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rivers State Police Command wishes to inform members of the public of the arrest of a notorious kidnapper the command has been trailing for some time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is Benjamin Bob-manuel; he was arrested around Nembe Waterfront on November 9 at about 7.20pm. He is the leader of the gang that abducted Osiya Agama, the sister to Diezani Alison-Madueke, sometime in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis accomplice, Whokows Ekine, was also picked today (yesterday) in Port Harcourt, where one locally-made pistol and their operation vehicle, a Toyota Highlander, were recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state police spokesman explained that the hoodlums had confessed to kidnapping the minister\u2019s sister in October.<\/p>\n

He warned criminals to stay away from the state or risk being caught to face the wrath of the law.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThey all confessed to the alleged abduction of Osiya Agama. You will recall without boasting that when the command confirmed her release, we made it categorically clear that sooner than later, we will get them arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cEfforts are in top gear to arrest their fleeing comrades in crime,\u201d Mohammad stated.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the police in Delta State on Monday said they arrested two armed robbery suspects at the Asaba tollgate and recovered one Lexus 300 Sports Utility Vehicle suspected to have been stolen from them.<\/p>\n

A statement by Mr. Preston Roland of the Police Public Relations Office, said, \u201cThe Special Anti-Robbery Squad Patrol team, while on duty at the Asaba tollgate suspected and arrested one Adim Mowete and Efe Idahosa who were driving in one Lexus 300 with number plate, USL 705 HX.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn interrogation, the suspects confessed that they snatched the said vehicle from a pastor in Benin City the previous night. The suspects also revealed that they were taking the said vehicle to a receiver at God is Good Motor Park, Asaba, and led the team to the said motor park where one Clement Edeh said to be an agent to the receiver was arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe said Clement Edeh confessed that he came from Benue State with his master, a Deputy Chairman of a local government in Benue State to receive the stolen vehicle from the suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe added that the said deputy chairman escaped from the scene when he (Clement Edeh) was arrested. The team later proceeded to Benin City and arrested one Osato Orobosa in connection with the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another development, the police in Asaba also said they arrested two suspected armed robbers while attempting to rob some accident victims along Benin \u2013 Asaba expressway.<\/p>\n

The police statement read, \u201cThe Dragon patrol team 01 covering Issele-Asagba\/Obulu-Okiti\/Issele-Uku, led by SP Anietie Eyoh, while on patrol arrested one Chiejine Onwuemene, 26, while he was attempting to rob some accident victims on the highway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspect confessed to the crime and led the team to their hideout where they arrested other members of the gang, one Emmanuel Nwafor, 25 and Monday Ngwuzor, 62.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: The Punch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE Rivers State Police Command has arrested a suspected kidnapper, Benjamin Bob-manuel, who allegedly led the gang that kidnapped Mrs. Osiya Agama, the sister of the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. Deltanewsroom.com learnt that Bob-manuel, who was apprehended on Sunday at Nembe Waterfront in Port Harcourt, was tracked for several days before he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Minister-of-Petroleum-Resources-Diezani-Alison-Madueke-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-LZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}