Rivers Police Send Men After Kidnappers Of Corps Members

The Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command, Okon Effiong, has deployed a police tactical team to track down gunmen who abducted National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members at Rumuji, Emohua Local Government Area of the State.
Rivers Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed the CP’s order in Port Harcourt, yesterday.
She explained without giving specific figures that some of the corps members had been rescued and police were making efforts to free those still with the kidnappers.
However, The Tide reliably learnt that those the police claimed to have rescued were lucky corps members who escaped the kidnap.
“What happened was that a group of corps members who live in Rivers were on their way to Port Harcourt from the NYSC Camp in Ondo after passing through orientation in that state.
“It was Tuesday, 16 May. They likely had jointly hired the Port Harcourt bound bus. At Rumuji, about 9pm on the East West Road, they were already in Rumuji when the bus was hijacked. It is not clear how many persons were abducted but five of the travelers escaped and ran to the Rumuji Police Division to report the matter”, a source told The Tide.