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The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a couple for threats and attempted kidnap of some yet-to-be-identified persons.
In a press statement on Friday, the spokesman for the command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the couple specialised in sending threatening messages to unsuspecting people and demanding ransom or they be abducted or killed.
Ikenga said the suspects were arrested on Friday by the joint security force, comprising the police and vigilante operatives acting on technology-driven information.
The statement read in part, “The Anambra State Police Command is aware and already investigating a related recent trending voice note of a security report on how a victim escaped abduction by an alleged security operative.
“Given reports of text messages and voice notes received by unsuspecting members of the public on threats of abduction and kidnap, the Joint Security Force comprising the Police and AVG acting on technology-driven information in the early hours of today (Friday), arrested a couple, one Mr Okoye Kingsley aged 36 years and Mrs Chidinma Okoye aged 27 years respectively in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State recovers phones and SIM cards.
“The couple specialises in sending threatening messages to people and demanding ransom or they shall be abducted or killed. They all confessed to the crime and admitted to destroying some of the SIM cards which they had earlier used to commit the crimes.”
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