AIG Nwazue (standing), CP Ozigi (sitting) at the meeting.

By Jethro Ibileke 

Worried by the recent spate of kidnappings in the Agenebode axis of Edo State, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 5 (Delta and Edo State Commands), AIG Arungwa Nwazue, visited the troubled region on Monday.

Nwazue was accompanied on the visit by the State Commissioner of Police, Umoru Peter Ozigi and senior police officers of the Command.

Kidnappers who have unleashed terror on the area abducted several persons almost daily in the past weeks.

Recall that gunmen suspected to be cattle herders allegedly abducted and killed a popular drummer identified as HC Ikhamateh Akhumhele, in Osholo community, Uwanno kingdom last Saturday.

They struck again Sunday evening, when they abducted the Rector of the Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary of the Catholic Diocese of Auchi, in Ivhianokpodi.

A statement by Edo Police Command spokesman, SP Moses Joel Yamu, Monday night, disclosed that the police team met with the Chairperson of Etsako East LGA, Hon  Benedicta Attoh, lawmaker representing the council, Hon. Kingsley Ugabi, Okumagbe of Uwanno Kingdom, HRH G.O. Egabor and other traditional rulers from Weppa, Ibie, Okpekpe as well as Bishop Gabriel Dunia, along with other Rev Fathers at the Council Secretariat.

The statement noted that the security operatives promised to chart a robust course to tackle insecurity in the area.

“The AIG…assured them that the Police will stop at nothing to ensure the perpetrators are brought to book and the abducted Rev Father is rescued unhurt. He further, called for synergy to achieve this.

“The CP in a separate meeting held with the youths of the community at the Agenebode Area Command, assured them of the Police’s readiness to work with the community for a secured and peaceful coexistence,” the statement said.

Yamu added that the Command seeks the support and cooperation of the general public in its quest to maintain law and order and to prevent every form of crime across the State.