Fourth suspect arrested while hiding in girlfriend’s Ceiling over abduction

….Cross River Police Command has arrested the fourth suspect in the abduction of former INEC staff, Mrs Caroline Bassey,

Recall that police rescued the victim hours after she was kidnapped from her residence in Calabar on Saturday, November 4, 2023 and arrested three of the kidnappers.

,,,,,Spokesperson of the command, SP Irene Ugbo, who confirmed the development in a statement on Sunday, said the fleeing suspect was arrested while hiding in the ceiling of his girlfriend’s house.

“The suspect was unsuspicious that officers of the Anti-Cultism and Kidnapping Squad were on his trail until he was apprehended at about 5 a.m.,” the PPRO said.

“He has confessed to being the mastermind of Mrs Bassey’s kidnap. He identified Bassey’s tenant as the person who contracted him and his gang to kidnap the victim,” Ms. Ugbo said.

Mrs. Caroline Bassey was rescued shortly after her abduction from her residence at Peter Ojie street, Off Winners Way, Calabar at 11:30am on Saturday, November 4, 2023.

It was gathered that the gunmen, who posed as customers seeking to rent chairs from Mrs. Bassey, tied up her security man and put him inside a refrigerator before one of the abductors drove out of the premises with the victim in her personal car.

However, luck ran out of the kidnappers as an alarm for help was raised.

,,,,,,As the kidnappers were driving out of her premises, a brave Good Samaritan blocked them.

In a bid to abandon their Camry vehicle, two of them jumped out of the vehicle to join their colleagues in the victim’s car as they were trying to reverse having noticed the blockage.

One of them wasn’t successful as the daring Good Samaritan knocked him down with his Toyota Hilux vehicle, allowing neighbours and some youths to apprehend one of the kidnappers.

,,,,,,Police operatives intercepted the other two kidnappers along Akamkpa axis and rescued the victim.