The Police have confirmed the rescue of some kidnap victims in separate operations in Abuja and Zamfara State.
The security agency said that 11 kidnap victims were rescued in Gwargwada community in Kuje Area Council of the territory.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, DSP Josephine Adeh, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the victims, kidnapped on February 17, were rescued on Saturday by operatives of the command.
The statement read that the Commissioner of Police in charge of the FCT, Babaji Sunday, ordered a manhunt for the perpetrators and rescue for the victims.
All the abducted victims were said to have been rescued unhurt after the police uncovered the criminals’ den in a forest within Kuje area of the FCT.
The PPRO said that the police operatives were already combing the forests to arrest the criminal elements and rescue other victims.
At the moment, the rescued victims are undergoing medical evaluation and would be reunited with their families as soon as they become medically stable.
The Police in Zamfara in a statement issued in Gusau, on Saturday, by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu, also said that it rescued seven persons who were kidnapped in Niger by some gunmen.
The statement by the Zamfara Police Command read that the tactical operatives of the command, in collaboration with the military deployed along Dansadau axis in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara, conducted the operation on Friday.
It stated that the seven rescued victims were natives of Chibade village in Rijau Local Government Area of Niger.
“The victims, during debriefing, informed the police that on February 21, bandits in large number, stormed the village and abducted seven of them to unknown location in Dansadau forest of the state,” it read.
It further read that the joint police and military operatives, on a coordinated bush clearance around Dansadau axis, rescued the affected victims.
The victims were reportedly brought to Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau, where they received medical treatment.
“All the victims will be handed over to the Police command in Niger State for further appropriate action,” it read.
(NAN).
