Police Recover Decomposed Corpses Of 3 Kidnapped Uniport Students

The Anti-Cultism Unit of Rivers State police command has arrested members of a kidnap gang who abducted, killed and buried three students of University of Port Harcourt in a shallow grave in Etoo, Rivers state.

The undergraduates were kidnapped on April 7, 2020. One of the suspects, Friday Akpan, said they abducted the victims (Joy Adoki, Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obimba ) on the order of one Bright, who told them the victims betrayed him after money was paid into the account of one of the victims.

The arrested suspect explained that they killed and buried the three undergraduates after raping Joy, the female among them.

The spokesperson for Rivers State Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni, stated that an AK 47 rifle, pistol, three magazines, 72 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the suspects. .

The decomposed bodies of the victims were exhumed by the police while investigation is ongoing.