Read what happened to Senator after 13 days in the kidnappers den

 – Senator Patric Ani has been rescued from the den of kidnappers

– Ani spent about 13 days in the kidnapper’s custody

– The third republic senator was ransomed for an undisclosed fee

Senator Patrick Ani regained his freedom from kidnappers’ den, 13 days after he was abducted in Calabar. This came few days after the state’s police commissioner, Mr Jimoh Ozi-Obeh said the police operatives were on the trail of senator Ani’s kidnappers.

Senator Patric Ani has been freed from kidnappers, 13 days after he was captured in Calabar.

A family source on Monday, July 18, told newsmen that the senator was released somewhere close to Calabar, the Cross River state capital.

Leadership reports that no arrest was made in regards to the rescue of Senator Ani, and it was not immediately clear what fee had been paid for his ransome.

Ani, a younger brother of erstwhile finance minister, Chief Anthony Ani, represented Cross River southern senatorial district in the upper legislative chamber in the third republic.

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The commissioner of police in charge of Cross River state, Jimoh Ozi-Obeh, via a telephone interview at 10:30pm, confirmed the release of senator Patrick Ani.

Jimoh, however, rebuffed comment on the condition that led to Ani’s eventual release.

In a similar development, some kidnappers who have been terrorizing Kogi state and its environs have been busted by the state police command.

The arrest of the kidnappers was made possible through special intelligence operation conducted by the operatives of the intelligence response team of the IGP’s monitoring unit at different black spots in Kogi state.

The police in a statement by the force public relations officer, Don Awunah, noted that three members of a notorious kidnap gang that has for a while operated in major cities in Kogi and neighboring states were trailed and arrested at their hideouts in the outskirt of Egume and Anyimgba towns in Kogi.

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