Three alleged kidnappers were killed in a gun battle and two of their informants arrested early Saturday morning along Lokoja-Okene highway by a team of hunters and neighborhood watch from Okehi and Adavi LGAs of the state. 

According to reports, the alleged kidnappers who were planning to stage an attack on road users on the Lokoja-Okene road, met their waterloo when two of their informants were arrested. 

The Senior Special Adviser (SSA), Security in charge of Okehi Local Government Area, Hon Abdulraheem Ohiare and his Adavi counterpart, Hon Joseph Omuya Salami, had led the hunters to the hideouts of the kidnappers following an intelligence report.

The hunters who were on patrol at about 4.30 am, apprehended the informants, one Mr Godwin Peter a native of Ikeje in Olamaboro Local Government Area and one Sanni Habib, a native of Idoji in Okene Local Government Area. Upon interrogation, they both confessed that they were informants who give information to kidnappers for their operations. 

The duo eventually led the hunters alongside the SSA Security from Adavi and Okehi to the kidnappers’ hideouts. Upon getting to their hideouts, the hunters engaged the kidnappers in gun battle during which three of them were gunned down while others escaped with gunshots wounds. 

Three sophisticated pump action riffles, bullets, masks and charms were recovered from the kidnappers.