Kidnapping of DPOs on the increase in Edo North district

By DADA AYOKHAI
 The police in Edo North senatorial district must be in the quandary as to why their top echelon officers have suddenly become prime targets for kidnappers and other notorious criminals. 

In a spate of a month, two divisional police officers, DPO, , have fallen prey to kidnappers in the district and later released.  

The incident seems to have heightened the security situation in the district, resulting in deep concerns about the worrisome state of security in the district, nay the entire state. 

Many Edo North residents are scared stiff that if such top ranking police officers who are  supposedly empowered by law to protect and secure them can be whisked away by a band of marauding criminals, what then becomes their own fate. 

Alhaji Ibrahim Alliu Ishaq, the DPO of Igarra Police Division in Akoko Edo local government area, was the first casually. 

The kidnappers reportedly "caltured" him along the popular Igarra - Auchi highway, in October, while transmuting to see his family. 

His kidnap became a huge national embarrassment. The kidnappers further insulted the sensibility of the citizens when they demanded a N50m ransom to secure his freedom.

 The DPO eventually regainy his freedom from his abductors following the support of local vigilantes who combed the forests and ferreted out the DPO

The heat and public disgust which trailed the first kidnap was yet to abate when, in November, the DPO of Fugar Police Division, in Etsako Central local government area, CSP Ibrahim Alliu Ishaq, was again abducted. 

CSP Ishaq was abducted along the old Agenebode - Ekperi road. 

Applying the same tactics, his abductors also asked for a ransom of N50m to secure his freedom.

Invariably, kidnappers have found a safe haven in the district and the ease with which they "plucked" two senior police officers as their victims, all within a month, sent jitters down the spine of residents with many losing hope in the ability of the police to protect them.

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