Operatives of the Inspector General of the Police Special Intelligence Response team,IRT have arrested seven members of a notorious kidnapping gang who masterminded the january 12 2017,killing of a United state army veteran,Chuks Okebata in Okigwe area of Imo state.The suspects who were identified as Sunday Igwe,alias "school boy",Michael Ahamefula,Onyebuchi Echefula,Ndubuisi Isaac,Victor Dagogo,Chima Okoro and John Edet,were said to have carried out several high profile kidnappings and armed robberies in Imo state,Abia and Rivers state.They were all rounded up at seperate locations while two AK-47 rifles and six magazines loaded with 127 live ammunitions were recovered from them.Sources gathered that efforts to apprehend these suspects commenced few months after the American Soldier was kidnapped and killed.