Police have killed three kidnappers in a shoot-out in Anambra State last week.
Anambra State Police Spokesman, DSP Okechukwu Ali, made this known during the weekend while briefing reporters at the state SARS headquarters in Awkuzu.
He revealed that a woman and her teenage daughter were arrested for allegedly keeping in their custody, a three-year old daughter of one Pastor Nwele who was kidnapped by a four-man gang and were negotiating a ransom payment before their arrest.
While displaying the corpse of the three kidnap kingpins with some arms and ammunitions recovered from various robbery and kidnap gangs, Okechukwu gave the name of one of dead as Chukwuemeka Ilo, while two others were yet to be identified.
He also paraded two other members of a kidnap gang who were arrested by the police while negotiating for a ransom of some workers of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome who they kidnapped in far away Lagos State and came down to Anambra state to negotiate for their ransom, adding that one Chukwuebuka Ohams from Owerri, Imo State was arrested for threatening to kidnap one Dr. Nwokolo if he fails to surrender the documents of his landed property to them.
Anambra's Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma, had vowed to smoke out all criminals from their hideouts in the state.