Police rescue 10 kidnap victims in Kuje

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Police rescue 10 kidnap victims in Kuje

The Police Command in FCT has rescued at least 10 persons kidnapped by a gang of hoodlums in Darka village in Kuje Area Council of the FCT.

The rescued victims are Fanus Emmanuel, Babangida Emmanuel, Akimmi Dauda, Japheth Kwasu, Dorcas Shuaibu, Kemuche IK, Hamza Yunusa, Umar Godiri, Ismaila Yusuf and Abubakar Gomo.

A statement issued by the Command’s Spokesman, ASP Anjugurin Manzah, stated that eight of the victims were rescued on November 19, while the other two were rescued on November 20 in Toto and Karu in Nasarawa State.


The police spokesman noted that the rescue was made possible by a joint operation by the Police Mobile Force Operatives of the command’s Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad, DSS, Nigerian Army and NSCDC.

According to him, the stronghold of the assailants who specialised in raiding remote villages at night and robbing the villagers of cash and other valuables and kidnapping was destroyed during the operation.

He added that an operative of the NSCDC, ASC Anumudu Uche, who took ill, died during the operation.

He said concerted efforts were in place to arrest the dislodged hoodlums.