Sensor Newspaper

The police in Akwa Ibom State says it has rescued the 80 years old father of the Chairman, Akwa Ibom State Industrial and Investment Promotion Council (AKIIPOC), Obong Nsima Ekere.

Obong Ekere's father who was abducted by gunmen last weekend, according to the police was rescued yesterday evening through a well planned surveillance and intelligence strategy.
Speaking via telephone with our reporter yesterday, the Police Public Relation Officer, PPRO, Akwa Ibom State Command, ASP Gab Ngban said the police achieved the feat by presenting the ransom demanded by the abductors and then while they were sharing the money the police swooped on them.
According to him, the abductors ran away leaving the ransom money behind and the police also recovered three AK 47 riffles and six loaded magazines.
ASP Ngban said the police avoided a gun fire exchange with the abductors to rescue the victim alive.
While stating that the victim was rescued somewhere in Nsit Ubium LGA, ASP Ngban urged members of the public to volunteer information to the police as this will assist the police to arrest criminals adding that the rescue of Nsima Ekere's father is as a result of information the police received.
The PPRO who said that under the leadership of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Walter Rugbere, kidnappers would have no place to hide in Akwa Ibom stressed that their time is up.
It would be recalled that kidnappers stormed Ikot Abasi last week to abduct the father of Nsima Ekere, trailing their victim's car from Ikot Abasi town to Ette and then overtook the car in front of the Union Bank at Ette, stopped their victim's car, seized him, put him in their own vehicle and revved off.
It was gathered that the mobile police men, at the junction on the way to Eket, possibly after receiving a tip off, chased after them and at that point there was a gun fire exchange which led to the shooting of a young school boy said to be returning from school.
The boy, Edidiong Sunday we learnt was lucky not to have been killed by the bullet but his father who spoke to The Sensor via telephone said “my innocent son was just returning from school when the shooting was going on and a stray bullet hit him” adding that the boy is lying critically ill at the General Hospital, Ikot Abasi.
He stated further that his resources have been completely depleted as a result of the incident and would want government to take over the treatment of his son, in order to save the boy's life.

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