N50 Million Ransom: Team Of Kidnappers Battle Policemen in Onitsha, as 3 killed , 17 Arrested

                     The  recovered money and victims who later died

                                    The 17 paraded suspects 

The Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS)of the Anambra state police command led by James Nwafor , the officer in charge of SARS, Saturday night engaged a team of kidnappers terrorizing the state in the last four years in a gun dwell after demanding a ransom of N50 Million from their victim one Mrs Edith Maduekwe.

www.odogwublog.com reports exclusively that trouble started according to the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Uche Ezeh when Edith’s family later negotiated down the ransom and paid N1.4 Million to the kidnappers and on a tip off , the SARS operatives stormed the Okpoko hide out in Onitsha where they were sharing the ransom money.

But on sighting the police, the kidnappers opened fire on the SARS team but the superior fire arm of the police , according to Ezeh overwhelmed the kidnappers scattering them and three sustained gun wounds while others are still at large.

The three arrested with gun wounds were one 24 years Charles Alozie , 23 years old Kingsley Eze and one Ikechukwu who could not say his surname, however died but not without giving the police useful information about all the members of their gangs. Edith was recovered in a Gully erosion site at Oraukwu, Idemmili South local government area. She was kidnapped at Oba , also in Idemili South.

Recovered items

www.odogwublog.com further reports that the police recovered at the hideout the sum of N776,000, assorted charms, one AK47 with 90 rounds of ammunition and one pump action as well as 10 live cartridges.

Ezeh informed that the suspects who sustained gun injury later led the police to where they kept their kidnap victim, Mrs Edith Maduekwe although police did not disclose much about the woman for security reasons but she was released to her family without the preying eyes of the press catching her.

Most wanted Kidnapper in Anambra

This is coming as there was jubilation from almost all police quarters over the arrest of one of the kidnappers identified as ‘’Charly Packer’ known for his prowess in harvesting victims for kidnap and the attendant looting thereto from their victims.

The police described Charly Packer as the most wanted kidnapper of all times in Anambra state and environs but was elusive for years  until last night they engaged police in a shootout leading to their sustaining of injury but he eventually died.