Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed and buried a senior staffer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Rivers State, Mr. John Iheanacho, after collecting ransom in dollars.
The remains of Iheanacho, who was kidnapped and murdered by the hoodlums in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State, was recovered by men of the Inspector General of Police Intelligent Response Team in the state, yesterday.
Two of the four suspects linked with the crime, on apprehension, took the police officers headed by Abba Kyari to a forest where they buried their victim in a shallow grave in a River said to in the boundary between Rivers and Abia State.
It was further learnt that Iheanacho, who was the President of Eastern Zone of Investment Cooperative Society Limited, was abducted and shot last week by the criminals and later taken to an uncompleted building in a community in Ndoki, Oyigbo where he died after some days from the gunshot wound.
However, the commander of the IGP Intelligent Response Team, Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, revealed that Samuel Ikechukwu, Alexander, a.k.a PILAR, Chima Mark, Stephen Iniobong and Teddy Ifeanyi, were the arrested suspects.
He added that they had collected ransom in dollars from their victims before killing him.
Kyari noted that the criminals had also abducted two other women alongside Iheanacho, who were released after they paid the sum of N1.5 each.
The suspect according to the police would soon be charged to court.
