Ebere, the 40 years old suspect was caught at 5pm on Monday, February 21, by the operatives of the vigilante service stationed roundabout, after they noticed that the suspect was having an unusual interactions with the minors who were hawking sachet water and making calls with an unknown person.
The minors were identified as Rejoice Efe, 11 years, Success Obaru, 12. both resides from Delta state.
Hon. Doubiye Alagba, The chairman Vigilante service, who had confirmed the incident said:
"Our men observed how the suspect had kept the three minors busy for several minutes and wondered what he was upto, it was at the point of his several calls and serious discussion with the three minors that we quickly asked one of our men to approach him,"
"When he was approached by our member he immediately took to his heel and and caught after a hot chase.
"At first the suspect claimed to have been a native of Rivers State, but after series of investigation, he later confessed his real identity that he is from Imo State."
According to Rejoice, one of the kids said the suspect had called them saying he wanted to buy water from them. She stated;
"We were hawking along the road only for this uncle to call us to buy water from us. We ran towards him and opened our bucket waiting for him to buy the pure water, he started making utterances first to my sister and asked me to wait,"
"Before then, he started making several calls, we became scared and insisted that if he was not buying the water again, we should take our leave."
"He kept telling us to wait and was telling I and my sisters that he like us and will take care of us and how would he see us later. We became more scared and it was at that point that, one uncle came and asked him what he was telling us and he immediately started running and they caught him."
Meanwhile Ebere had denied the accusation made against him, he was later handed over to the Anti-kidnapping Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Bayelsa Command for further investigation.
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