DELTA STATE POLICE COMMAND BUST SIX (6) MAN GANG KIDNAP/ROBBERY SYNDICATE OPERATING UNDER GUISE OF VIGILANTE/HUNTERS ..... Recovers Arms, Ammunition And Operational Vehicle

"Investigation later revealed that they were hoodlums who usually operate under the guise of being members of Hunters Group from Ovwian Aladja, but would sneak into Ekpan Community in a Sienna vehicle, rob and kidnap unsuspecting, after robbing them, they run to hibernate in Ovwian Aladja." DSP Edafe.

The Delta State Police Command Headquarters, Asaba has announced that the Ekpan Divisional Police Command, near Warri has smashed a notorious gang of six (6) that has been terrorizing residents of Ekpan and environs.

According to DSP Bright Edafe, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO Delta State Police Command Headquarters Asaba, in a statement issued, disclosed that, "at about 2am of the 15th December, operatives attached to the Ekpan Police station deployed on patrol along Jakpa Road, intercepted a Toyota Sienna space bus, ash in colour without registration number conveying six male occupants.

"Their suspicious conduct attracted the attention of the police operatives and were therefore, subjected to a search during which three (03) pump action guns, four (04) locally made guns, one (01) long axe, seven (07) expended cartridges, nine (09) live cartridges,  native charms, three (03) cutlasses, two (02) number plates were recovered.

"The suspects, Aaron Okorigwe 'm' aged 27yrs and five others who could not give reasonable account of themselves, were taken into custody. 

"Investigation later revealed that they were hoodlums who usually operate under the guise of being members of Hunters Group from Ovwian Aladja, but would sneak into Ekpan Community in a Sienna vehicle, rob and kidnap unsuspecting, after robbing them, they run to hibernate in Ovwian Aladja.

"Following these findings, on the next day, the DPO invited three victims (names withheld), all of whom were at various times victims of armed robberies, and kidnappings in the area, and placed the suspects on identification parade, the victims identified the suspects as the syndicate that robbed and kidnapped them. 

"Investigation is ongoing." The statement concluded