{"id":413541,"date":"2021-11-09T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=413541"},"modified":"2021-11-09T20:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:33:25","slug":"police-recover-decomposed-body-of-retired-captain-kidnapped-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=413541","title":{"rendered":"Police recover decomposed body of retired captain kidnapped in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The decomposed body of a retired military officer, identified as Captain Godfrey Zalamac who was kidnapped and killed by his abductors has been recovered by the Rivers State Police Command.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the late military officer who was kidnapped on 18 September 2021 was recovered during a search by operatives of the Rivers State Police Command on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Three suspects arrested in connection with the abduction led a team of police officers and military personnel to a forest within a new layout in Igbo Etche in Etche local government area of Rivers State where the victim was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Friday Eboka who led the search said \u201calthough the police were not informed about the kidnap, the suspects were arrested a few weeks after the abduction was reported to the Command\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cDuring our investigation, we arrested these three people who brought us to this place where they dumped his body\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>CP Eboka said the victim who hailed from Benue State was abducted around Agboncha in Eleme Local Government and brought to the forest<\/p>\n<p>He advised members of the public to always contact the police whenever there are cases of kidnap and other forms of insecurity to enable the police act promptly.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the suspects including Frank Ishia and Gomba Okparaji who spoke to journalists admitted to the crime, saying they intended to \u201ccollect ransom from the company\u201d where the man worked.<\/p>\n<p>They, however, explained that the retired officer was \u201cshot on his leg when he refused to follow them on the day he was kidnapped after which he died\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One of the kidnappers confessed that \u201d this is the fourth operation\u201d since he started the kidnapping business\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the remains of the retired military personnel have been handed over to his family for a proper burial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decomposed body of a retired military officer, identified as Captain Godfrey Zalamac who was kidnapped and killed by his abductors has been recovered by the Rivers State Police Command. The body of the late military officer who was kidnapped on 18 September 2021 was recovered during a search by operatives of the Rivers State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":413542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,61,642],"class_list":["post-413541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-police","tag-rivers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}