Chief Gbalipre Turner has been released by his kidnappers, according to the Bayelsa Police Command.
Mr Marvin Turner, the 70-year-old father of the Chairman of Bayelsa’s Ogbia Local Government Area, was kidnapped on September 5 in Kpansia, Yenagoa.
The victim was freed at Oluasiri, Nembe Bassambiri, in Bayelsa’s Nembe LGA, according to the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), SP Asinmi Butswait.
According to Butswait, the victim is in good health and has been reunited with his family.
He said that police officers had previously applied pressure on the kidnappers, resulting in the victim’s release.
The PRO added that the suspects had been identified and efforts were ongoing to apprehend them.
He explained that the Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa Command, CP Echeng E. Echeng, had ordered officers to sustain the ongoing investigation to arrest the suspects.