DELTA State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, has said that the police were not magicians and require realistic information from the public to establish the whereabouts of a female lecturer of Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Dr. Mercy Mokobia, kidnapped, April 9, from her home in Obiaruku.
Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, DESLU, Abraka branch, Dr. Emmanuel Mordi, had asked the state Commissioner of Police to produce the lecturer, dead or alive, lamenting that over 20 lecturers had been kidnapped in the last two years.
Mordi said that the university lecturers were gravely worried about the fate of Dr. Mokobia, a lecturer in the Science Education Department, as the police had not given any cogent explanation on her whereabouts since her abduction over three months ago.
Responding to Mordi’s outburst, Mr. Aduba, said “I appreciate the concern of lecturers of the Delta State University and all other citizens of the state, but you will agree with me that the police have not been sleeping over this matter.
“We have cracked many kidnapped cases in the state and the records are there. In the case of Dr. Mokobia, the wife of a professor in the university, we are still investigating the matter. I personally visited Abraka to brief the lecturers on what we are doing.
You see, it was an insider’s job, somebody who used to work for them organized the whole thing and we tracked down the kidnap gang, where three female suspects were arrested with part of the ransom collected by the gang, about N900,000.”