The Imo State Police Command, availed by some vigilante members, have undiscovered a kidnapper’s underground eight-bedroom den in a desolate building.
Channels Television reported on Saturday that the hideout, located in Umuchima Village, Okwu Autonomous Community in Ikeduru Local Regime Area of Imo State, was utilized by suspected kidnappers to harbour their victims.
The State Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, while parading the suspects, explicated that the underground hideout, with eight bedrooms, was discovered through astuteness network and collaboration of the vigilante men.
He verbally expressed, “it took the police over three hours from Owerri, the state capital, through the thick bush and untarred road to get to the kidnappers’ den.”
The villagers, who verbalized with journalists, verbalized they were neither cognizant of the underground den nor the malefactor activities that were carried out in the compound until an abducted victim who eluded from the dungeon in the middle of the night narrated his ordeal.
They explicated that the statue in front of the building was that of the owner of the building, one Mr. Simeon Mpieri, whom they alleged had died since 1990.
The police commissioner further revealed that the buildings would be confiscated and demolished. He additionally verbally expressed the command would do its best to rid the state of of kidnapers.
In June, the state regime had given directives that all forsook properties or uncompleted buildings would be surmounted by the regime, in order to ascertain that those places are not turned to dens for malefactors.
