‘Rivers men arrested with wooden guns, not kidnappers’

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A lecturer at the Federal College of Education, Omoku, Rivers State, on Sunday said two men who were paraded before journalists along with other criminal suspects in the state were not kidnappers, but

film-makers.

He said, “I did not just give the student the props, I constructed them myself. He has a valid identity card from the acting academy. The suspects, Samuel Bobmanuel and Justice Nwiigbara, were arrested by operatives of the Rivers State Police Command attached to Miniokoro Police Division on Wednesday, September 2, 2020.learnt that Bobmanuel, a student of the Federal College of Education, Omoku, Rivers State, was arrested after his crew member, Nwiigbara, was caught at a police checkpoint and a photograph in his mobile phone showed them posing with the fake guns.

“Before I started shooting the movie, titled, ‘Shooting Spree’, I contacted the Choba Divisional Police Officer to seek his permission to use real guns for my production, but he refused to grant my request and advised against it, so I had to contact my department to use wooden guns and one of my lecturers granted my request and gave me the wooden guns to use for the production, assuring me that they were okay.

 

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