Police rescue kidnapped woman, arrest suspected gang member in Rivers

The Rivers State Police Command has rescued a pistillate identified arsenic Loveth from her kidnappers and arrested a suspected subordinate of the pack during an cognition successful the state.

Loveth was kidnapped connected September 2, 2026, portion sitting successful beforehand of her shop.

The constabulary said the equipped kidnappers fired shots into the aerial earlier forcing her into a conveyance and driving away.

In a statement, the Command’s spokesperson, ASP Agabe Blessing Kaborlo, said operatives of the Eleme Police Division began an intelligence-led cognition to find the unfortunate and her abductors connected the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Olugbenga Adewole Adepoju.

ASP Kaborlo said the cognition aboriginal led to a weapon conflict betwixt the constabulary and the suspected kidnappers.

The constabulary rescued Loveth and arrested 35-year-old Victor Ini, who is allegedly a subordinate of the gang.

Items recovered from the fishy see a silver-coloured mini Keke autobus with registration fig RBC 992 XE, Abuja; 2 locally made pistols; 1 unrecorded circular of ammunition; a mobile phone; 2 individuality cards; 2 achromatic gowns; and a conveyance fig sheet bearing registration fig KRK 528 HG.

The Command’s spokesperson said the constabulary had intensified efforts to place and apprehension different members of the suspected gang.

According to the statement, the Com...