Anambra
State Police Command yesterday said it has arrested a popular hotelier
and owner of Arthur Garden Hotel, Umusiome, Nkpor, near Onitsha, Mr.
Arthur Udo Christopher, in connection with the kidnap of the Operations
manager of Zenith Bank Plc, Nkpor Branch, Mr. Vincent Ohiagwu.
Arthur Garden Hotel, Umusiome, Nkpor was last Sunday sealed off by
Anambra State Government following alleged information that it was a
hideout for kidnappers and the subsequent arrest of four kidnap suspects
in the hotel.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ballah Nasarawa, who disclosed the
arrest of the hotelier to newsmen in his office said, Mr. Christopher
was picked up in Enugu after the four arrested kidnap suspects made
confessions that led to the rescue of the bank manager and one Mr. Osita
Okafor from Uga on August 4. Nasarawa gave the names of the kidnap
suspects as Chinedu Eze, Obumneme Madugha, Okezue Chukwuemeka and Okoro
John, adding that two other branches of Arthur Garden Hotel located at
Afor-Nkpor and Anglican Lane, Off Limca Road, Nkpor have also been
sealed off by the police.
But in a swift reaction yesterday, the family of the hotelier disputed
police’s claim that kidnappers were arrested at the hotel, challenging
the command to parade the kidnappers if it was true that they made any
arrest. A spokesman for the family, Mr. Augustine Udo, who said he was
the executive consultant to the hotel, insisted that no kidnapper was
arrested in the hotel, alleging that the whole story was politically
orchestrated to portray Christopher, the hotelier in bad light.
Meanwhile, the state police boss said the command was still on
investigations aimed at arresting the kidnappers of the monarch of Ukpo,
Igwe Robert Eze, who was freed last Tuesday by his abductors.
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