Nemesis has caught up with three members of a kidnap gang who abducted and killed three students of the University of Port Harcourt.
The suspects were arrested by on Thursday by the Anti-kidnap Unit of the Rivers State Police Command.
The suspects it was gathered, allegedly buried the remains of the undergraduates in a shallow grave at Etio community, Eleme Local Government Area of the state.
It was learnt that the UNIPORT students were kidnapped on April 7, 2020 and murdered the same day.
One of the suspects, Friday Akpan, from Akwa Ibom State on Friday, disclosed that two of his colleagues gang-raped the female among their victims, Joy Adoki, before eventually killing all of them.
The two other victims, who were also buried in a shallow grave, were identified as Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obimba.
According to Akpan, “We held the three persons at the sand field. All of us, five in number, killed them. They (victims) were three: two young men and a woman. Two among us gang-raped the female. Bright brought the gun we used in killing them. I am a member of Iceland.”
The Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Nnamdi Omoni, while speaking on the matter, said the command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit, led by its commander, Collins Shadar, a Chief Superintendent of Police, swung into action after the victims’ kidnap was reported to the unit.
He said that the suspects confessed to kidnapping the three undergraduates and taking them to the forest, killed them and buried them in a shallow grave. “They had earlier demanded ransom before they killed their victims.“
“Their confession after they were arrested led us to this forest, where we recovered the bodies of these undergraduates. We have identified the corpses. One is Nelson Nwafor, the female is Joy Adoki, while the other one is Fortune Obimba.”
He added that one AK-47 rifle, one pistol, three magazines and 72 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the suspects.
