Speaking with newsmen in Umuahia, The Commissioner of Police in Abia, Mr Leye Oyebade, said his men arrested the the suspects while guiding a kidnap victim in Aba. It will be recall that the Bakassi men were reportedly attacked by the assailants, who allegedly ambushed them on Aba-Owerri Road around 4 p.m. in February. Revealing how the suspects were apprehended by the police, Oyebade told newsmen in his office in Umuahia, that two of the suspects — Chimezie Ezeigbo, alias ‘landlord’, and Emeka Ukaegbu, alias ‘smallpin’ — were arrested while guarding a kidnap victim,one Christopher Duru. Oyebade also said Duru,a resident of World Bank Estate, Aba,was kidnapped on March 17 but rescued by operatives from Ndiegoro Divisional Police Station and the Aba Area Police Command.He said the suspects, which included one Julius Nnachi of Amaetiti Ekoli in Ebonyi, had confessed to the crime.The police commissioner said his men recovered one Pump Action Rifle,one English-made Pistol,seven live cartridges,one .9 mm long.

Killing of bakassi boys? The real bakassi boys are no more, those ones can't be killed so I wonder who these ones killed

The name 'bakassi' is often used to refer to local vigilante group in Aba.

The story get some confusion line.. is the one girding the kidnapped victim that kill the bakkassi boys?