Kogi State Police Arrest Politician, 44 Others.

Kogi state police have captured a legislator along 44 others suspected to have connection with kidnapping, armed rubbery and other fierce law violations in the most recent three weeks.

Solomon Arase, the inspector general of police, reported the arrest through Emannuel Ojukwu, the force public relation officer, on June 22, Monday, at a news confrene in Lokoja.

PM News reports that following  the spate of kidnappings in the state, Arase sent a special anti-crime team headed by Chris Ezike.



As indicated by Ojukwu, the team was sent on May 27, 2015 and bolstered by 300 portable cops drawn from the nation over.

"The inspector general accused the team of the accompanying:
to admire the troubling wrongdoing circumstance in Kogi and rapidly outline a format to contain the crime;

to distinguish every single criminal syndicate, their leaders/infantry, patrons and arrest them with operational exactness;

to distinguish ruffians' places of refuge, forts and free casualties,"  he said.

The arrested government official (name withheld) was said to have contested in state House Assembly election for Okehi constituency on April 11, however lost.

Among the suspects, there were a 72-year-old-man, said to be the uncle of an ex-minister from the state, a lady, a disabled person and a few detainees, who had prior gotten away from jail amid during jails break in the state.

Ojukwu asserted that the lawmaker was in charge of supplying arms and ammunitions to criminals and hijackers.
Talking about the capture of the ex-minister's uncle, the officer uncovered that the elderly man had been on the police needed rundown for affirmed inclusion in kidnapping.

Ojukwu included that amid the fruitful operation police officers recovered from the suspects 14 arms and ammunition, including AK 47rifle, twofold barrel weapons, machest,knifes and charms

As indicated by him, collective clashes, political thuggery, cultism, drug impact and the gateway nature of the state were a few elements in charge of the law violations conferred in Kogi.

Prior this month, Kogi state police safeguarded Stephen Maiyaki, the commossioner for lands and housing, who was abducted on May 30.