By Premium Times
The police in Delta State, southern Nigeria, have arrested a former lawmaker for an alleged attempt to kidnap a woman in the Abbi community.
The police did not name the lawmaker but said he was a former Ndokwa West Local Government Council member.
Bright Edafe, the state’s police spokesperson, said the police received a credible intelligence report that the former lawmaker was “planning to kidnap a prominent member of Abbi community”.
On 21 October, at about 9 pm, the man from the Emu-Uno community and one other person were arrested.
“Upon interrogation, the suspect said he was suspended from his council position and that he wanted to kidnap the woman so that the local government would pay a ransom since the woman was close to the council chairman,” Edafe said.
The suspect is in police custody, and the investigation is ongoing.
The police fear that the crime rate will increase as Christmas approaches, so they have deployed operatives across the 25 local government areas in the state.
