JTF soldier, 24 others paraded for kidnaping

Vanguard

24 December 2011

JTF soldier, 24 others paraded for kidnaping

IT was a show of shame yesterday when a soldier attached to the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, was among twenty four others paraded by the Rivers state Police Command over alleged involvement in kidnapping and other related crimes.

According to the state Police boss, the soldier and his five member gang had made attempts to abduct a business man in the state before their arrest.

Continuing, the state Police Commissioner, Mr Aba said among the twenty four paraded, six were fraudsters who connived with their accomplice in some of the telecommunication industries to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.

According to the Police boss, they got GSM numbers of senior citizens through their syndicate group in the communication sector and send threat messages to them for money. And out of fear, most of