GUNMEN KIDNAP DIVISIONAL POLICE OFFICER
The spokesman said the Anti-Kidnapping Unit and Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Inspector-General of Police swung into action, trailing the suspected kidnappers, adding that, “We are hoping for a positive result and I want to use this opportunity to advise members of the public with relevant security information on criminals to avail the command same for necessary action, .
Penpushing further reports that, as at the time of filing this report, no group has claimed responsibility for the kidnap in Adamawa, while a source in the community in his own account said, the police officer was coming back from Yola and all of a sudden some yet to be identified gunmen wielding sophisticated rifles attacked him at Mararraba at about 8 p.m.
“The DPO was coming back from Yola and all of a sudden some yet to be identified gunmen wielding sophisticated rifles attacked him at Mararraba at about 8 p.m. and whisked him away to an unknown destination” the source stated.
Penpushing also reports that, Adamawa like many other States in Nigeria has continued to witness cases of kidnap for ransom, resulting in scores of innocent people being kidnapped every month across the country, while families of the victims had to pay ransom before regaining freedom, and in some cases some of them lost their lives.
