Police Rescue Four Kidnapped Victims In Kwara, Two In Abuja

The Police Command in Kwara has confirmed the rescue of four kidnapped victims
who were abducted in Isin Local Government Area of the State, last Thursday.
The spokeperson of the command, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, disclosed this in a statement in Ilorin, yesterday.
The statement said the victims were rescued by a combined team of policemen, hunters and vigilantes on the directive of the State Police Commissioner, Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi.
“However, acting on the directive of the State Police Commissioner, the command’s anti-kidnapping unit stationed within the Isanlu-Isin axis, assisted by hunters and vigilantes, swung into action and gave the abductors a hot chase.
“In the process, the kidnappers abandoned the Sienna bus conveying the victims at the time of the incident and one of them, Oke Olatunji, was rescued by the team.
“The CP personally led another special tactical team on search and rescue operation into the forest within Isin town and in the process, another victim identified as Femi Ajayi, with bullet injury, was rescued.
“He was taken to the health center in Isanlu-Isin where he is currently receiving medical attention.
“Another two persons were rescued by the police on Saturday night July 15,” the statement read in part.
The Tide learnt that the four victims Dipe Ajayi, Kunle Abolarin, Femi Abolarin and Femi Ajayi were abducted at about 5 p.m in Isanlu-Isin on July 13.
The four victims hail from Oke-Arin, Isanlu-Isin in lsin Local Government Area of the state.
Meanwhile, operatives of the FCT Police Command, in the early hours of yesterday also rescued two kidnapped victims in Abuja.
The police swiftly responded to a distress call following the kidnap of the two Abuja residents by suspected bandits and during exchange of gunfire, the hoodlums abandoned the victims and flee into the bush.
Residents of Mpape community had reported that gunmen believed to be seven in number, invaded the area between 1am and 2am in the wee hours and took away the two residents.
“They were shooting sporadically causing residents to wake up and started calling the police.
“After sometime, some of us came out to discover they had left with two residents towards a destination and the police went after them”, a resident who pleaded anonymity told newsmen.
Spokesperson of the FCT Command, SP Josephine Adah, while confirming the incident, disclosed that police tracked the hoodlums to a corner where a hot exchange ensued.
She said the victims had been rescued by the police and would soon be reunited with their loved ones.
“There was a swift response from our men from Mpape and the command’s tactical team.
“They mounted pressure on the criminals which forced them to leave behind the victims”, she said.
Adah added that “efforts are ongoing to arrest the suspects. We are on the trail of the suspects”.