The Nasarawa state Police Command has nabbed a suspected Kidnapper, at the edge of jijipe village in the Karu L.G.A of the State.
DSP Rahman Nansel, the Public Relations officer in the state disclosed this information to news respondents in a statement on Tuesday.
According to DSP Rahman, they received a complaint from someone on December 3rd about the alleged abduction of two private security guards attached to a sachet water manufacturing company at the Jeje Jijipe village. Immediately some men were dispatched to search for the victims.
After an intensive investigation on the whereabouts of the victims, the suspect, fortunately, led the policemen to their hideout at Hilltop, Jeje Jijipe village, where the two victims were rescued, A wooden carved gun was also recovered at the scene of the incident.
Nansel also revealed the State’s Commissioner of Police has ordered that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department in Lagos for more investigations. And that according to law the suspect will be prosecuted for his crime.
The PPRO said, “On December 3, 2022, at about 9 am, a complaint was lodged at Karshi Division that, on December 2, 2022, at about 2 am, private security guards attached to a sachet water manufacturing company undergoing construction at Jeje Jijipe village, Karu LGA, were abducted and taken to an unknown destination.
“Acting based on the strength of the report, the Commissioner of Police, CP Maiyaki Baba, mobilized a detachment of police operatives led by CSP Nnamdi Udobor, the Divisional Police Officer, Karshi Division, to conduct a relentless manhunt on the perpetrators of the crime.
“In the course of the intensified investigation, the suspect led the police operatives to their enclave at Hilltop, Jeje Jijipe village, where two victims namely: Sadiq Jibril and Danladi Aku, were rescued unhurt and reunited with their families, while a wooden carved gun used in perpetrating the dastardly act was recovered as an exhibit.”
It is important now, that we all be security conscious and make sure that every strange incident or behavior is reported to the Police. The rate of insecurity in Nigeria, is alarming as every part of the country, is filled with Kidnappers, the government will have to find ways or measures to curb this vice, as news on kidnapping is now rampant in the media. We hope that the suspect is duly prosecuted in court and given the sentence he deserves to serve as a deterrence to others of his kind
