A
kidnap kingpin who had been in Police net in Bayelsa State, Digiteme
Itua (Alias Seko), who allegedly spareheaded the abduction of six
employees of Hyundai Heavy Industries in Okpoama Island, including four
Koreans and two Nigerians in December, has escaped.
The
Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Kingsley Omire, who disclosed
this to journalists in Yenagoa during a briefing, also revealed that
Hyundai Heavy Industries secretly paid a ransom of N30 million to the
kidnappers without the knowledge of the command.
According
to the police Commissioner, suspects linked with the abduction of the
construction workers on December 17, 2012 were Romeo Egbo, Goodnews
Amabebe, Dito Ologbo and Digiteme Itua. The police chief said the
command still had in its custody another kidnap kingpin, Simeon Lalapu,
whose gang abducted the paramount ruler of Okordia clan inYenagoa Local
Government of the state, King Seiba, on August 25.
He
further noted that following the confession of Itua, who claimed that
he had four AK47 and several rounds of ammunition in Ogboinbiri
community in Southern Ijaw Local Government, security operatives left
with him and Egbo for Ogboinbiri for the recovery of the arms. However,
Itua and Egbo escaped into the swamp on the way to recovering the arms
and ammunition as a gang of armed men, suspected to be comrades of the
kidnappers opened fire on the security operatives escorting the
suspected kidnappers.
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