The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a couple, Kingsley Okoye, 36, and Chidinma Okoye, 27, for allegedly sending threat messages and attempting to kidnap unsuspecting individuals.
In a statement on Friday, the command’s spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed that the duo specialised in issuing abduction threats through text messages, demanding ransom with the ultimatum of abduction or murder.
Ikenga said the suspects were arrested on Friday by the joint security force, comprising the police and vigilante operatives acting on technology-driven information.
He said the suspects confessed to the crime and admitted to destroying some of the sim cards which they had earlier used to commit the crimes.
The statement read in part, “The Anambra State Police Command is aware and already investigating a related recent trending voice note of a security report on how a victim…