Posted on: 06:04 Fri, 08 Apr 2016



A Pastor of the Deeper Life Bible
Ministry has miraculously escaped
from the den of kidnappers: And
he sensationally made his escape as
they dozed off.

Pastor Gilbert Akioyamen, was
abducted at about 6 pm on March
24, along Ukhun road, Ekpoma,
Esan West local government area of
the state, while on his way to the
Deeper Life camp ground.

Three of the suspected kidnappers,
including a business woman,
namely, Charles Arasomwan, 22;
Jezreel Ekanem, 21; and Mbindi
Nneka, 26; were paraded on
Thursday with 72 other suspects
arrested for various crimes, at the
state police command headquarters
in Benin.

Narrating their level of
involvement and how their victim
escaped from their grip, one of the
suspects, Ekanem, said the Pastor
had been kept in their custody by
some other fleeing members of the
gang who promised to reward them
.



“They said that they were going to
a bank and told us to keep an eye
on the man.

They said that they would give us
something to buy some beer.

‘The man did not talk to us, so we
slept off. When we woke up, we
realised that he had escaped,” he
explained.

His female counterpart, Mbindi
Nneka, however denied any
knowledge of the abduction, saying
that she was only in the apartment
to remove her property.

”I don’t know how the matter
started. I was the one living in the
apartment before I put my brother
there when I got married.

It was the landlord that instructed
me to remove the property there. I
wish I knew that it would have
resulted into this; it was the
landlord that put me in this
problem. I only went there to move
the property to my house,” she
said.

According to the State
Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris
Ezike, the suspects were arrested
after the Ekpoma divisional police
headquarters, received a distress
call and combed several buildings
in the area.

He explained that while
Arasomwan and Ekanem were
nabbed in the building where the
victim was kept, Nneka was
arrested in the apartment of one of
the suspects, said to be her relative.

‘Two locally made cut-to-size single
barrel guns, mask, ATM cards, one
long rope and one mat were
recovered from the suspects,” Ezike
said.

The kidnapping suspects were
among the scores of criminals
paraded by the Edo Police
Command today.