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POLICE ARREST IGBOAYAKA DIKEIGBO, NOTORIOUS ORLU KIDNAPPER, ARMED ROBBER

Orlu Elias Igboayaka Dikeigbo, alleged kidnapping kingpin in Orlu has been arrested on Saturday by the police in the area.

This followed a tip-off to the local Vigilante group of his Umuna community who earlier arrested some of his gang members who at interrogations, named Elias as their leader.

Elias has been moved from the Orlu Division of the Nigeria Police to the Police Anti Kidnapping Unit of the states Command, Owerri Saturday evening.

Elias who serves as the Community Youth leader of his town has been named in several criminal activities in both Orlu and environs, and has been on the Police wanted list over series of armed robbery operations, including a recent kidnapping and diversion of a stock fish loaded truck. He later went underground during which his wife and some Kinsmen were arrested and taken to Akwa in Anambra state.

Elias Igboayaka who has no visible business is said to have acquired properties suspected to be through proceeds from suspicious illegal and criminal businesses.

It is said that almost everybody in the area is aware of Elias’ dubious lifestyle, including his family members and traditional Rulers, but are afraid to speak out for fear of their lives.

Upon arrest of his boys, confessions were freely made naming Elias as their leader. Police source said the suspects would be further quizzed by the anti kidnapping department of the Police in Owerri to ascertain their level of involvements in criminal activities happening in the area, especially kidnappings.

People of Orlu who spoke to this reporter said stories of missing children in Orlu have become reoccurring feature, even as series of kidnapping incidents in the town have become a weekly thing.

Some of the people spoken to were seen jubilating and appreciating both the Vigilante and the police for a job well done, even as they appealed to authorities not to release the suspect back to society as has been the case in his several arrests in the past.

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