Delta CP parades 30 kidnappers, dreaded cop killer, Dracula

The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Zanna Ibrahim, has paraded over 30 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and criminals, including a wanted cop killer, Anthony Obolor, a.k.a. Dracula.

Dracula, the CP said, was one of the most dreaded kidnappers and armed robbers with pervading influence within power circles in the state. He was arrested after a foiled kidnap operation.

Dracula and his gang had struck on December 23rd and whisked away their victims, Mrs. Mofe Otomi, 42 years and Mrs. Regina Ani, 38 years, both of Effurun, Uvwie LGA Delta state.

Daily Trust gathered that the victims, while driving in a Hyundai Jeep with Reg. No. LSD 344 ER along DSC RoundAbout, Warri, were blocked and taken away to an unknown destination with the said Jeep.

Acting on intelligence from the complaint by a relative of the victims, one Pastor Frank Otomi, a team of Operatives attached to ‘B’ Division, Warri, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP. Aniete Eyo arrested one Henry Okejere Kesena, a notorious kidnapper who had been on the watch list of the Police Command.

Kesena’s arrest and confession led to the arrest of Dracula and the other suspects who equally confessed to the crime and their involvement in several kidnap incidents, including the murder of the late Police Area Commander, Ughelli, ACP. Usman Ndanbobo last year.

The CP also paraded on Ojigedu Doctor 38 years old patent medicine dealer of Ashisiri Qtrs, Obi-Ayaga, Ughelli South LGA, Delta State in connection with the kidnapping of one Gbiyede Uvie Juliet of Alhaji Momodu Rd., Warri, in 2016.

According to the CP, precisely on 19th September, 2016 at about 7am, the victim was kidnapped alongside her 9-year-old old daughter named Tekevwe Gbiyede, while driving in her Venza car with Reg. No. SMK 753DR.

“Four suspects were then arrested and charged to court in connection with the crime but Doctor, whose car was used to convey the victims to the kidnappers’ den had been at large.

“However, on 29th December, 2017, he showed up at the Police headquarters in Asaba to claim the impounded car used in the kidnap operation but was arrested by operatives of Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad (SAKCCS), Asaba, for his complexity in most kidnap cases in Warri and environs.