Breaking: Justice Nwosu-Iheme’s Kidnapper, Arrested

By Gideon Njoku

Reports reaching The Source indicate that the alleged mastermind of the abduction of Appeal Court Judge, Benin Division, Hon. Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, has been arrested.

Described as a notorious kidnap kingpin, his name was given as Stanley Onoriode Ekemeye.

He was arrested early Tuesday morning,  according to reports, by operatives of the Directorate of State Security Services, DSS, at Okwuzi, Egbema, in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA, Rivers State.

Nwosu-Iheme,  Nigeria’s first female Judge to earn a Doctorate Degree, was abducted in Benin city on October 30, when she ran into kidnappers  along a bad stretch of road, in the city.

Wearing police uniform, they parked their Hilux, and had kidnapped four people before she ran into them. After smartly saluting her, to which she responded, they rained bullets on her car, instantly killing her Police Orderly of  12 years, Inspector A.I. Momoh, took his AK 47, shattered the Judge’s car back tyres, and made away with her.

The asking price for her release was N1billion. It was reduced to N500m. Her abductors said the FG should pay from Trader-moni.

This magazine cannot confirm how much the family paid, but she was released after two weeks in captivity.

Now, the DSS has cracked the case which shamed the nation, with the arrest of Okwuzi, the alleged mastermind.