The police in Nasarawa State Sunday said they rescued a kidnap victim, Mr Anthony Duke Effiom, a former councillor in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State.
The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ramhan Nansel, announced this in a statement issued in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.
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He said the police recovered one AK 47 Riffle with an empty magazine in the state.
He said the police received a distress call around 9:50 pm on explained January that yet to be identified gunmen barricaded the road at Kurmin Shinkafa along the Akwanga-Keffi expressway and abducted Mr Effiom.
According to him, “Upon receipt of the information, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Adesina Soyemi drafted the personnel of the command attached to Garaku Division, all the tactical teams of the Command in collaboration with operatives of the Inspector General of Police, Intelligence Response Team to go after the kidnappers.
“Consequently, on 29/1/2022 at about 0100hrs, the operatives trailed the abductors to their hideout at Angwan Maigini Village, where the personnel engaged them in a gun battle, succumbing to the superior firepower, the hoodlums escaped into the forest at various locations with varying degrees of injuries and the victim was rescued unhurt by the Police,” the statement added.
He said the police commissioner, who commended the police operatives for a job well done, however, cautioned all criminal elements to as a matter of urgency either leave the State or meet their waterloo.
