The Edo State Commissioner for Communications and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare, has disclosed that the security operatives have arrested one of the
Nehikhare made this known during a briefing to journalists in Benin City at the Weekend.He pledged support for security operatives to avert the recurrence of such incidents in the state.
“After 32 kidnapped persons, security operatives and local hunters swung into action, combing the bushes around the environment. One of the kidnapped victims escaped the kidnapper’s den.”
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