The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested a notorious kidnap kingpin, Stanley Onoriode Ekemaye, believed to have masterminded the kidnap of Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, a judge with the Benin division of the appeal court and several other high profile abduction cases recently.
The appeal court judge was kidnapped on October 30 in Benin and spent two weeks with her abductors before she was released after an undisclosed amount was paid by her family to the abductors.
According to reports, Ekemaye was arrested by operatives of the secret police in the early hours of Tuesday at Okwuzi Egbema in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA in Rivers state.
He is believed to have been coordinating robbery and kidnap operations around the Delta, Edo and Rivers axis for years.
Among his 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 offers.
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