The police in Rivers State, South-south Nigeria, say they have arrested some officers for abducting a staff of a hotel and demanding for N1 million ransom to free him.
The victim of the abduction, a staff of a hotel was arrested in Port Harcourt on his way to work at about 8 pm on Friday by the rogue police officers.
It was gathered from impeccable sources close to the Rivers Command that the criminally minded police officers intercepted their victim on his way to work, searched his body and found nothing incriminating on him.
Not satisfied,the police officers also opened his phone and found nothing there.
However, the source said while scrolling through the phone, the Police officers discovered where the young man is working and immediately kidnapped him.
They subsequently forced him to call members of his family to pay one million naira ransom as bail for his release from their custody.
They had allegedly threatened the young man that they would ‘waste’ him like they had done to some others victims who refused to cooperate with them in the past and throw his body into into the Choba River and tag him a kidnapper.
It was learnt that the police officers tied the young man inside their vehicle and were patrolling with him until they finally took him to a bush somewhere in Aluu in Ikwerre local Government Area of the state.
According to the source; “He was compelled to call his boss, the owner of the hotel in Choba at gunpoint. When his boss was called, he smartly contacted a certain DPO who pretended to be his father.
“The rogue officers unknowingly started negotiating the ransom money with the DPO(names withheld) through the boy’s phone thinking he was the victim’s father.”
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