DSS arrests suspects who killed Rivers Corps member

Hamilton Nwosa
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The Department of State Security (DSS) in Rivers State has arrested five suspects allegedly behind the kidnap and murder of a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Mr Sampson Worlu.

The suspects, who allegedly murdered the corps member after collecting ransom of N1.5 million for his release, are already facing charges at a magistrate court in Port Harcourt.

A brother of the deceased, Charles Worlu, said all the family wanted was justice.

 

Worlu said, the kidnappers made the family pay them ransom twice, the first being one million naira and the second time, five hundred thousand naira and still murdered the hostage.

The corps member was serving in Imo State before his abduction at Rumuokoro roundabout in Obio Akpor local government area of Rivers State.

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