Two men suspected to be kidnappers escaped being arrested at a police checkpoint in Enugu on Wednesday.
gathered that the men, suspected to be behind the abduction of four persons returning from a burial on the Nike-Ugwogo-Nsukka Road on Friday, were accosted at a checkpoint in front of the Isi-Uzo Divisional Police Station, Ikem, and huge sums of money suspected to be the ransom collected from the victims’ families were found on them.
An eyewitness at Ikem narrated that the two men rode on a bike from Ugwogo to the Ikem junction, where they took another motorcycle to Eha-Amufu but were stopped at the checkpoint for a search. “Before he could come back, the men had run into the bush with the money, but they were pursued across the Ebonyi River and up to the Umuaram community, where they were almost caught, but escaped with blood drops.”
It was later gathered that the other kidnapped victim had been released after ransom was paid on Wednesday.
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