…Other Gang
Members Escape With Bullet Wounds
The joint
military patrol team attached to the 19 battalion of the Nigeria Army in
Sapele, Delta State has arrested a kidnap kingpin identified as Robinson
Okotie
. While the Okotie’s criminal activities has unsettled the people of
Sapele community, leader of the patrol team, Lt Col. Aji Mohammed confirmed his
arrest yesterday, saying the suspect was arrested around Ugbeyiyi Junction by
Memory Super Market in Sapele, upon which he duly confessed to being a member
of the kidnapping ring that has been operating in Sapele and its environs.
He said that
the suspect also confessed to have been responsible for the killing of two
soldiers in the area recently who were on routine patrol along Ovoh Creek.
Accordingly,
the suspect led the team to their hideout where they arrested one David
Adogbefi, another gang member. Okotie also confessed to terrorizing the creeks
including Benin River Oil Workers in the recent times.
Mohammed
added that during search for the arrest of other gang members in the creek, the
team engaged a few members in a fierce gun battle where two of the suspects
were killed by the military, while others escaped with bullet wounds.
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