DELTA STATE POLICE COMMAND ARREST FACEBOOK SCAMMERS, KIDNAPPERS AND RAPISTS

The suspects

"The modus operandi of the syndicate is to lure unsuspecting young girls on facebook, get them to a hotel, drug them, gang rape them, before holding them hostage and demand ransom from their parents to secure their release." Police

The Nigerian Police Force, Delta State Command Headquarters, Asaba has continued to achieve successes with its determined fight against crime and criminality across the state.

This is coming on the heels of the orders of the State Commissioner of Police, Ari Mohammed Ali to his officers to take the challenge to the criminals and ensure that crime in the state is brought to the barest minimum.

To this end, criminal elements have continued to be on the receiving end of the full wrath of the law.

A statement issued recently by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO Delta State Command Headquarters, DSP Bright Edafe revealed that, "On 02/01/2023  at about 1700hrs, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO Ofuoma Division, received a complaint from a lady (name withheld) that she saw one of the hoodlums that kidnapped her on 11/12/2023, and held her Hostage at a hotel in Iwherekpokpor Community, Ughelli North LGA, took her nude pictures and recorded her on video while inserting a candle on her private part.

According to the report, "the hoodlum used the same video to blackmail the victim and her parents to pay huge ransom."

"On receipt of this complaint, the DPO immediately detailed a combined team of Police detectives and Ekiugbo community vigilante, arrested one Cornelius Emene ‘m’ aged age 32 years," the statement read. 

"During preliminary investigation, the suspects made useful statement that led to the arrest of two other suspects Nelson Aghogho (aka Little), Ufuoma Tunde 'f', and also gave account of how they kidnapped another student of school of health and Technology Ofuoma, Ughelli north LGA. 

"The modus operandi of the syndicate is to lure unsuspecting young girls on facebook, get them to a hotel, drug them, gang rape them, before holding them hostage and demand ransom from their parents to secure their release. The suspects phones contained numerous sex video recording of their previous victims, which was also used to blackmail them and their parents. The three suspects, Cornelius Ememah, Nelson Aghogho (aka Little), and Ofuoma Tunde 'f', are currently in custody, and investigation is ongoing." The statement concluded.