UPDATE On Morenike: Kidnappers Demand N10million Or They Kill Her This Afternoon

 We reported Morenike Popoola's kidnapping this morning. the kidnappers have made known their ransom of N10 million naira or they will kill her this afternoon. Please help the police with information or ottherwise in any way you can to rescue her.

Dear readers your mission is twofold
1.   Rescue Morenike Popoola safely
2.   Catch the bastards

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Kidnap Victim Saved by Auto-Accident to Kidnappers

She was rescued by the Police based at Iguobazuwa, Ovia South Local government area of Edo state at Ofusu where the accident occurred. Annabel who works in her father’s resort located at Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State was abducted by four gunmen last week who forced her into their vehicle after blind folding her.

The kidnappers were heading to an unknown destination when the vehicle in which they conveyed their victim crashed around Ofosu town, along Benin-Lagos highway. The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of operations, Edo Command, Mr. Agberebi Egbuson disclosed that the Police in Iguobazuwa division on receipt of a distress call of an accident, rushed to the scene.

They were however amazed when four of the five accident victims that they were supposed to rescue took to their heels on sighting the police. “When the policemen approached the scene, four young men around the vehicle took to their heels. We later realized that they were actually kidnappers as a young girl was found inside,” the DCP disclosed.

Narrating her ordeal in the hands of her abductors, Annabel said she was in her father’s hotel in Lagos when four heavily armed men ordered her to a waiting vehicle and later blind folded her while they embarked on a long journey. Annabel who has since re-united with her family could not say what led to the accident or where it occurred but affirmed that police’s arrival scene made her abductors to abandon her.

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Kidnapped Zenith Bank Manager Rescued By Police, Hotelier Arrested

 

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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