Residents of Rumuodogbo community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State can now sleep with their eyes closed, as operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have arrested three members of a notorious kidnap gang terrorizing the community and Port Harcourt city.
We gathered that the suspects, Uzoma Amandi, Uburize Omesi and Onyekachi Amadi, who were also identified as members of the notorious Icelander cult group, terrorizing residents of Rivers state and its environ in recent time, were arrested after they killed and beheaded five members of a local vigilante outfit, known as OSPAC and displayed their corpses on the social media.
It was gathered that members of the gang who operated with two pump action guns and an AK-47 rifle loaded with four magazines and 120 rounds of live ammunition, usually kidnapped their victims from Port Harcourt city and took them to their camps in Chuba area of the state, where they would be kept for days before ransoms were paid for their release.
Police sources disclosed that the Inspector General of Police was alerted in October 2020 about the gang’s activities after five members of OSPAC vigilante outfit were killed and beheaded, when they confronted members of the gang at Rumuodogbo community. A source explained that operatives of the IRT, headed by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, was deployed to investigate and track down members of the gang.
We also gathered that when the IRT operatives commenced their investigations, it was discovered that members of the kidnap gang terrorizing the Rumuodgbo community, were natives of the community and had their base in Aba town in Abia State, but they regularly visited Port Harcourt and Rumuodgbo community, where they carried out their kidnapping and cult related activities.
