The Delta State Police Command said it has arrested a suspect who allegedly hypnotised two girls and then kidnapped them.
The Police spokesman, a superintendent of Police, Bright Edafe, said that acting on an intelligence report regarding a suspect who forcefully abducted girls from the North, and kept them in his house against their will, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Agbor Division, Chief Superintendent of Police, Obekpa Michael, led operatives of Agbor Division and embarked on an intelligence led investigation.
The detectives trailed the suspect to the Oza Nogogo community and raided the premises of one Bila Halili, 30.
Edafe said: “Suspect was seen with a young girl named Rebecca Mathew, who was kidnapped on the 11th of September 2025. The DPO and his team, alongside members of the local vigilante, rescued the victim, Mathew of Bodinga Community in Washegu LGA, Niger State and the suspect, Bila Halili, of Kosso community, Sokoto State, was arrested.
“Upon painstaking examination of the victim, the operatives discovered that she had been hypnotised, but she stated that the suspect lured her out of her family home and destroyed her SIM card to make her unreachable before taking her away.
“Further investigation led the operatives to the victim’s mother, one Esther Moses, of Bodinga community, Niger State, who later revealed that the victim had been missing since the 2nd of September, and a complaint has been made to the Police at Niger State. Investigation is ongoing.
