Alex, who claimed to be a vigilante, attributed their actions to hunger and non-payment by their private security employer.
The Edo State CP appealed to political parties and their supporters to shun violence.
Mr Ikenga said that one of the victims had been safely returned to Nigeria from Ghana and debriefed,
The suspect was arrested during a routine stop-and-search patrol.
The source said, “When we got there, the cleric had already run away, but we found the victim’s lifeless body on the ground, without a head and in the pool of his own blood.’’
Mr Lawan-KofarNasarawa said that the warning became necessary as some film-makers now portray the service in negative light.
“The suspects were receiving kidnapping ransoms with their accounts.’’
The police spokesperson explained that the suspect “lures them by telling them that they are coming to Delta State to work as a sales girl in a restaurant.”
The police said it was reported that the suspects were in the process of mixing dried okro with wood dust, which was to be sold to unwary buyers for consumption.
The Nation, Blueprint correspondents, wives, children abducted in Kaduna
