Police Hunt Nigerians Who Abducted Consular From Estonia

General News of Sunday, April 21, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-04-21

Police are on the hunt for three Nigerians suspected of kidnapping Thursday a consular general and chief of the mission of Estonia to Ghana, Hon Nabil Makram Basbous, in Labone.

According to the police, the victim was walking early in the morning when the suspects in a white Hyundai Elantra parked in front of him, fired a gun at him and ordered him to enter the car.

DSP Efia Tenge, a public relations officer with the Accra Police Command, said that the command unit Charlie SWAT had gathered information that Nigerians living in H / N / 11 / B, NTHC areas in Vivian Farms Lashibi, were suspicious characters who stay home all day but only come out at night.

According to the statement, around 8 am Thursday, the police followed up with the intelligence services and located the house, but encountered resistance when she tried to enter the house.

He added that the three occupants of the house had climbed a fence wall at the back and escaped.

"While the police were still on the scene, the victim, the Honorable Nabil Makram Basbous, 61, a Lebanese consular general and head of the Estonian mission in Ghana, came out of one of the parts of the house, "he said.

The statement adds that the victim, who lives in Labone near Wangara, said that he was walking early in the morning when the car stopped in front of him.

"One of the occupants came out, fired a gun at him and ordered him to enter the car or risk being killed when he resists. He forced, entered and was taken away with the kidnappers pointing a gun and an ax toward him. He could not fight his way until they came to the scene. He was held in the room and held hostage against the payment of a ransom, "the statement said.

According to the police, after searching the complex, she found a Retay pistol, loaded with 5 ammunition cartridges of 7.65 mm and 2 axes.