The
suspected kidnapper of Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, a judge with the Benin
division of the Court of Appeal has been arrested by the operatives of the
Department of State Services (DSS).
The alleged kidnap kingpin, identified as
Stanley Onoriode Ekemaye, was said to have been tracked down at Okwuzi Egbema
in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State in the early hours
of Tuesday, November 26th.
Justice Nwosu-Iheme was kidnapped by her
attackers who killed her police orderly on October 30 after trailing their
vehicle from the Ramat park area of the Edo State capital. She regained her freedom after two weeks.
The Commissioner of Police in the state,
Danmallam Mohammed, confirmed that the judge was rescued from kidnappers and
later reunited with her family. The Justice’s abduction led to public outcry
from various quarters including the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Benin
Branch, embarking on a three-day boycott of all courts.
Ekemaye
is also believed to have been responsible for several robbery operations around
Delta, Edo and Rivers for years as well as high profile kidnappings, including
the recent kidnap of the chief medical officer of Irrua specialist hospital,
Sylvanus Okogbenin, and a sister-in-law to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
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