Crack detectives from the police and intelligence unit of the Joint Task Force (JTF) code-named �Operation Restore Hope� are closing in on the armed gang that abducted four workers – three Indians and a Pole – in Sapele, Delta State, on Friday.
Security sources told the Nigerian Tribune yesterday that one of those arrested shortly after the incident had provided the security outfit with information which were being acted upon.
�The information has been very useful and our men are working on it.
�Infact, before the week runs out, we will fish out those hoodlums.
We are up to the task. We will no longer give these boys the breathing space again because they have no reason to engage in that act again with the release of Asari-Dokubo,� he said.
The four foreign workers, who were abducted while on their way to work at a rubber firm at about 9.00 a.m., were said to have been monitored over time by the kidnappers until they executed their plan.
The source said the driver of the speed boat scheduled for the evacuation of the hostages spoilt business for his colleagues because he did not keep to time.
�The driver of the boat came to the jetty shortly after his colleagues had hijacked another boat with its driver and escaped with their captives.
So, immediately the security agents discovered that he came for the kidnappers, they swooped on him and interrogated him to see if it was possible to immediately resue those foreigner�, he added.
The identities of two of the Indians kidnapped were given as Murughan Gopal and Anthony Marian, while those of the other two were yet to be known as at the time of filing this report.