Police rescue four kidnap victims in Abuja

The Nigerian Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, Abuja, has rescued four victims kidnapped by a notorious kidnapper based at Sauni Hills, Lambada,  Abuja.

According to a statement made available to newsmen by the Police Public Relations Officer, FCT Command, DSP Anjuguri Manzah, “the special operation which led to the rescue of the victims and dislodging of the criminal hideout, located in a remote mountainous setting, was sequel to a distress call received at Gwagwalda Division that two persons a male and a female were kidnapped from their home by some heavily armed persons on 8th February 2020 at 01:00hrs.”

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According to the statement, “consequently, upon the information, the police operatives from Gwagwalada Division on Saturday, 8th February 2020 at about 14:00hrs launched a major onslaught forcing the heavily armed kidnappers, who engaged the police rescue team in fierce exchange of gunfire, to abandon their victims at the mountainous terrain, used as their hideout, before escaping through the hills.

“While two of the rescued victims, Alhaji Umaru Salihu ‘m’, and Mariam Umaru ‘f’ were kidnapped from their home in Pagada village on 8th February 2020 at about 01:00hrs, the two other victims (Zilkifilu Usman ‘m’ and Usman Shuaibu ‘m) informed the police that they were kidnapped from Niger state on 2nd February 2020, while on transit.”

The Command, however, appreciated the vigilantes in the axis, whom the statement said, with the spirit of community policing, they supported the police during the operation.