Three 400 level students of the Univeristy of Port Harcourt kidnapped on April 7 have been discovered dead in Eleme, Rivers state.
The victims identified as Joy Adoki, Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obemba were declared missing by the police on April 19 after Adoki’s brother, Umor, filed a compliant at Eleme Police Division.
It was gathered that days after they disappeared, their kidnappers contacted their families and demanded for ransom.
Despite payment of ransom, it was gathered that the kidnappers failed to release the students as promised, leaving their families confused.
Newsmen gathered that with the complaint made by Adoki’s brother, detectives in Rivers State arrested one Bright alias Nelly, who led investigators to two principal suspects in the kidnap identified as Friday Akpan and Emmanuel both resident in Eteo, Eleme.
It was learnt that Akpan confessed to the police that the three victims were killed and buried in shallow graves at Eleme.
The suspects led investigators to the scene of the murder around 6am on Friday where the three decomposing bodies of the victims were recovered.
The remains of the deceased Students have been deposited in the mortuary. Exhibits recovered from them includes one AK47 Rifle, three magazines, seventy two rounds of ammunition.
