{"id":25047,"date":"2014-04-04T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=25047"},"modified":"2014-04-04T19:17:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:17:22","slug":"kidnappers-of-clarks-son-demand-n50m-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/kidnappers-of-clarks-son-demand-n50m-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers Of Clark\u2019s Son Demand N50m Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUSPECTED kidnappers of Mr. Ebikeme Clark, son of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, kidnapped, Wednesday, at Kiagbodo, Delta State, has reportedly contacted the family, demanding about N50 million ransom for his release.<\/p>\n<p>Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, however, said that the police have arrested three of the suspected kidnappers and were inching closer to their hideout, warning that no ransom should be paid.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He said one of them confessed that he participated in the \u201cplanning stage of the kidnap,\u201d adding that the police were working with ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo and other Ijaw groups to track down the kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>Aduba said the kidnap was carried out by Ijaw kinsmen of Edwin Clark and the police would burst the syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>Elder statesman, Chief Clark was said to have briefed President Goodluck Jonathan, the governor of Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and Mr. Aduba on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Vanguard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUSPECTED kidnappers of Mr. Ebikeme Clark, son of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, kidnapped, Wednesday, at Kiagbodo, Delta State, has reportedly contacted the family, demanding about N50 million ransom for&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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