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Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) has
arrested one Stanley Onoriode Ekemaye, described as a “notorious kidnap
kingpin” who allegedly masterminded the abduction of Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme,
a judge with the Benin Division of the Court of Appeal.
Nwosu-Iheme was kidnapped on October 30 after being trailed from
Ramat Park end of the Benin-Agbor road before her vehicle was intercepted
around Christ Chosen Church of God International.
Her police orderly was killed.
She eventually regained her freedom after two weeks.
TheCable reports that Ekemaye was arrested by the secret police
in the early hours of Tuesday at Okwuzi Egbema in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA in
Rivers state.
Ekemaye is believed to have been coordinating robbery and kidnap
operations around the Delta, Edo and Rivers axis for years.
Among his other alleged victims are Francisca Okhiria, wife of
the Managing Director of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, who was kidnapped on
September 14 and released after three weeks.
Others are Esther Achimogu and Elias Ovesour who were kidnapped
in June, as well as Elizabeth Mekuye, sister-in-law to Ifeanyi Okowa, the
governor of Delta state, who was abducted in August and released early
September.
Sylvanus Okogbenin, the chief medical officer of Irrua
Specialist Hospital, was kidnapped on August 26 in an operation that led to the
death of two police officers.
The kidnap was also traced to Stanley Onoriode Ekemaye. Bitnex Crestfort
