Facebook fraudsters in Delta state detained for repeated kidnappings and gang rapes.

A kidnapping gang that specialized in enticing women onto Facebook to gang rape and blackmail them has been destroyed by the Delta State Police Command.

Three alleged members of the syndicate, including a woman, have thus been detained.

According to what learned, the syndicate’s method of operation was to meet unaware women on Facebook.

Then they would allegedly invite the trusting victims to a hotel where they would allegedly be sedated and subjected to gang rape.

If they weren’t finished, they would kidnap them and hold their parents as ransom to free them.

When one of the women (names withheld) who had been kidnapped on December 11, 2022, and had since been freed, recognized one of the kidnappers on Monday, the bubble popped.

She then informed the police at Ufuoma Division that she had been kidnapped and was being held prisoner in a motel in the community of Iwherekpokpor, Ughelli North Local Government Area.

She said that they had taken her naked images, videotaped her while sticking a candle in her intimate area, and then used the footage to threaten her and her parents into paying a hefty ransom.

Edafe said: “On receipt of this complaint, the DPO immediately detailed a combined team of Police detectives and Ekiugbo community vigilante who arrested one Cornelius Emene, 32, on January 2, 2023.

“During preliminary investigation, he made a useful statement that led to the arrest of two other suspects: Nelson Aghogho (aka Little) and Ufuoma Tunde, a female.

“He also gave an account of how they kidnapped another student of  the School of Health and Technology, Ofuoma, Ughelli North Local Government Area.

“The suspects’ phones contained numerous sex video recordings of their previous victims, which were also used to blackmail them and their parents. The three suspects are currently in custody, and the investigation is ongoing.”