Suspected kidnapper who allegedly killed Delta lawmaker arrested
One Mr. Omote Eboh has been arrested after allegedly abducting a Delta lawmaker, Hon Onose Onakpoma.
Eboh was trailed a village in Benin, Edo state where he has allegedly been hiding after abducting his victim. He was said to have taken the lawmaker to a forest in Okurekpo, Ethiope East Local government area of Delta state.
“The Omote Eboh, a kidnap-for-ransom network in the thick forest between Okurekpo and Okuekpagha boundary (Omue’ te’te) carried out a major robbery operation on 31st March, 2018 where they robbed over 20 people including Hon. Onose Onakpoma and there after kidnapped him and hauled him to the thick forest where he was promptly killed before the kidnappers called to pick up a ransom of N500,000.00 and thereafter vanished into thin air with no trace of Hon. Onakpoma and a little or no trace of the kidnappers,” the vigilantes Group of Nigeria confirmed.
Eboh had been on the run, despite the arrest and detention of his wife. Most of the perpetrators of the heinous crime have been apprehended.
Hon Onakpoma’s remains are in the Eku Baptist Government Hospital morgue while officials are preparing legal documents to release the body to the family.
