Okorocha doffs hat for Police, DSS after crack down on Kidnap Kingpin, Vampire

Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has commended the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, and the Department for State Security, DSS, for the gallant way they successfully cracked down on the dreaded kidnap kingpin, Mr Chibueze Henry, also popularly known as ‘Vampire’ and his gang.

Governor Okorocha in statement issued yesterday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, in Owerri, the Imo State capital, the governor extolled the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris for dispatching the special squad that worked in tandem with officers and men of the Imo Police Command in terminating the horrendous reign of Vampire.

According to him, “it is good and cheering news that the gallantry of the police ended the ugly story of the notorious and dreaded kidnapper, Vampire, just few weeks after his gang abducted him from Prison officials at the High Court, Owerri where he was standing trial for the crimes he had committed.”

The governor also extended his commendation to the men and Officers of the Directorate of Security Services, DSS, who first arrested Vampire in Owerri and the arrest raised the consciousness of both the security agencies and the public about the existence of the hardened criminal.

Okorocha reiterated that the declaration he made when he became governor in 2011 that no criminal would survive in the State is still valid and that was the reason men like Vampire were arrested in Owerri.

He said even when his partners in crime took him away from the Court few weeks ago, he knew it would not be long and his ugly chapter would be closed.

On the reported threat against him and his family by Vampire over the N5m ransom, placed on his head, the governor said that such threat was an empty one because he knew that Vampire having stepped into Imo State to carry out criminal activities would soon become history and a bad one for that matter.

The governor once again reiterated that Imo State would remain no-go-area for criminals and that those who might succumb to the temptation of ignoring his warning would have themselves to blame at the end of the day.