Oghenetejiri Nyerhovwo
Delta State Commissoner of Police, Ari Muhammed Ali has assured travellers plying the Eku/Abraka/Obiaruku /Umutu/ Abavo/Agbor highway notorious for kidnap activities as well as other routes in the state of their safety.
The State Police Commissioner gave this assurance after leading a joint security patrol team through the highway where kidnapping has now become a daily occurrence.
In a statement made available to National Reformeronline signed by DSP Edafe Bright, Delta State Command Police Public Relations Officer (P.P.R.O.), CP Ali said it will no longer be business as usual for kidnappers, as the renewed synergy between the police and the military will return normalcy to the highway and Agbor Train Station.
He stressed that the railway line passing through Agbor will now be under strict surveillance to douse any threat of kidnapping in the area.
The Police Commissoner called on members of the public to always provide security operatives with useful information regarding movement of person’s along the railway line and forests.
It will be recalled that travellers plying the Eku/Abraka highway leading to Agbor and the Agbor Train Station get kidnapped almost on daily basis, hence the synergy between the police and the military to arrest the situation.
Last weekend, a lecturer with the Delta State Government owned University in Agbor and some passengers in a Toyota Sienna SUV escaped by whiskers by stroke of divine intervention and luck but occupants of two other vehicles that were on the same route between Umutu and Abavo stretch of the highway after a military check point were not that lucky as they were kidnapped at gunpoint by men allegedly armed with assorted sophisticated weapons suspected to be Fulanis.
