Police Reveal How Abducted RCCG Pastor, Others Were Rescued
The Ogun State Police Command has revealed how it was able to rescue five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) kidnapped at J3 Area in Ogbere axis of Ogun State, on Saturday, three days aftyer their abduction.
The victims were Chidinma Ibelegbo, Deaconess Chidinma Ibelegbo, Chimela Iroha, Okoro Olowukwe Chidioze Eluwa and Ndubusi Owuabueze.
They were abducted while travelling from the Eastern part of the country to Lagos by hoodlums numbering about ten, who stormed out of the forest around the area, stopped their commercial vehicle and led them into the forest.
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Speaking on Saturday evening at the Police Officers Mess, Abeokuta, the State Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, said all the abductees were rescued unhurt.
According to Makama, the tactical rescue operation by his men, with the support of local vigilance group and hunters paved way for the feat.
The Police boss further explained that his men were deployed in large numbers to the area where the incident happened and that their effort yielded a positive result, when the only female among them, Ibilegbo was rescued in the early hours of Saturday.
Contrary to reports that all the five victims were ministers of RCCG who were heading to the Redemption Camp for Ministers’ Conference, the Police boss revealed that only Ibilegbo was a Pastor with the Church.
While referring to four other suspects as “soft targets”, he said some hoodlums are in already in Police cell while efforts are ongoing to arrest the real ones behind the crime.
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Speaking, Chimela Iroha, one of the abductees who identified himself as the son of James Iroha alias “Gringory” of the New Masquerade, narrated his ordeal in the hands of the abductors, saying he was manhandled
According to him, the hoodlums made them to trek 30km in the forest and forced them to sleep in the swamp from the day of their abduction till the time they were rescued by the Police.
