The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, has said that kidnappers in Nigeria have foreign collaborators that coordinate their activities in the country.



The IG also said that three more persons had been arrested in connection with the kidnap of four journalists and their driver in Abia State a few weeks ago.



Onovo, who did not elaborate, spoke through the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, in Abuja on Wednesday. He explained that investigation had shown that the collaborators provided technical and logistic support to the local gangs physically involved in kidnapping for ransom.



He assured that the foreign elements would soon be apprehended.



He added that the Nigeria Police Force would continue to do its best to protect lives and property, but noted that it was being hampered by lack of sophisticated equipment



He stated that the Force had to hire the tracking device it used in locating the kidnappers of the four journalists and their driver, stressing that there was a limit to what police officers could do without necessary equipment.



“The police serve everybody because they are public servants and can only work to the extent of the equipment we are given,” he said.



He disclosed that the three fresh suspects were in addition to four earlier held in connection with the incident.



He said the suspects had given useful information about their network, adding that the police had dismantled the “stronghold of kidnapping in Abia State,” as some of the suspected perpetrators of the crime had fled the state.



He said, “Nigeria is sick and tired of kidnappings and we are resolved to stop this social menace in the country at large and the South-East in particular.



“Our investigations have shown that these kidnappers have foreign ties and we are going to smash them; we won’t show respect to anyone involved in kidnapping at all.”

Onovo has finally gone mad!
Make una de watch market o! You go soon see IG naked for deh!

Is Onovo still the IG or has he been replaced yet? Stark, raving madness.

Nchara:

Is Onovo still the IG or has he been replaced yet? Stark, raving madness.

he has never been the IG . His just there on holidays

You just gotta laugh,  This has to be the lousiest excuse ever.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Thei collaborators within the police force pose more of a threat than the perceived foreign ones.

Make una leave onovo alone. . .He might be right. after all Bakassi indigenes r now camerounians

What a super story from onovo!

Typical Nigerian Police Force attitude, blame someone else, it is never their fault

i tire ohhhh