DSS arrests 11 kidnappers, child traffickers

The Department of State Services in Benue state in collaboration with the State Security Council on Wednesday paraded 11 arrested kidnappers and child traffickers.

According to The Punch, the suspects were alleged to be involved in stealing and selling children across the country.

The DSS also paraded the victims: Emmanuel Abedi, Favor Oleka, James Adanu and Joseph Aboje who had been in the hold of the kidnappers and traffickers for a while.

One of the kidnappers Adejo Ogiri alias Okala who spoke to journalists after he was paraded confirmed that he had kidnapped four children and handed them over to Ezekiel, a bus driver from Imo State.

Adejo said, “Each time I kidnapped children from any part of the state, I usually took them to Ezekiel who in turn, would hand them over to his wife, Amarachi, who specialised in receiving stolen children for the purposes I don’t know.

“I was paid N1m naira for kidnapping little Miracle Jacob. But it led to the bursting of the syndicate.”

The kidnappers were paraded at the Benue People’s House Makurdi, where Governor Samuel Ortom said Ogiri, alias Okala, was the kingpin.

Others paraded were, Affonne Nwokocha from Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State who facilitated the buying and selling of children.

According to Ortom the final payment of N700,000 made by one Augustine Basil for Jacob was deposited in Nwokocha’s Keystone Bank account No: 6006236465, adding that the suspect also confessed to have facilitated the adoption of a child for one Henry Ndukwe in 2013, for the sum of N500,000.

Ortom said the State Security Council and the DSS were working with the Benue State office of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons to further investigate and prosecute the syndicate.

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