By correspondent in Lokoja.
Residents of the Ogugu community in Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi state and their counterparts in Orokamu/Otukpa axis in Benue State have sighed a relief as the joint patrol team of the Nigeria Police and the Kogi East Neighbourhood Watch (KEWN) arrested 10 suspected kidnappers terrorizing them for quite some time.
Our correspondent gathered that the suspected kidnappers were alleged to be herders operating across border States.
The Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP. William Ovye Aya, while confirming the story on Friday in Lokoja, disclosed that three of the suspects were nabbed in Kogi State and seven other gang members were arrested in the Gidanrawa Trailer Park Hotel in Otukpa, Benue State.
He added that suspects arrested in Benue State had been handed over to the Police Command in Benue State while other suspects were being interrogated by the Police in Lokoja, Kogi State.
"When we arrested the three suspects here in Kogi State, they confessed that they have gang members whose hideout is Gidanrawa Trailer Park Hotel in Otukpa, Benue State.
"Immediately, security operatives, including vigilantes, went there and arrested seven of them.
"We later handed over seven of the suspects to the Police Command in Benue State for further action while the three suspects arrested in Kogi were ferried to Lokoja the Kogi State capital for further investigation" he further revealed.
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