Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba has attributed the power of most wanted kidnap kingpin in Delta State, Kelvin, suspected to be a drug addict to a shrine in Urhobo community of Kokori, known as ‘Egba’, which he said most of the people owed allegiance to.
He stressed that information at his disposal indicated that the person that could neutralize Kelvin’s powers was the Ose Egba (chief priest), adding his initial plan was to blow up the shrine, where Kokori people go to renew their charms, but he changed the idea to see how the chief priest could assist the police in the task of checkmating the kidnap kingpin.
Aduba, who spoke during a Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Asaba, Showtime programme, recently said the IGP was not opposed to granting him official pardon.
According to him, Kelvin had promised that that he would assist the police to smash the kidnap industry in the state and the Inspector General predicated his imprimatur on his surrendering arms and cooperating with the police.
Unknown to Commissioner Aduba, it was a hoax, as the kidnap kingpin, currently on the run, struck two days after with a gang of nine gunmen and successfully freed two notorious kidnap suspects, identified as Rufus and Frank, from warders, while they were taken to court on March 13.
Aduba said the kingpin had not been arrested since then because information about his whereabouts was in short supply.
Aduba said from his findings, the kidnap kingpin was on drugs and speaks like a human being when he is sane, but once he had sniffed, would behave like a monster.