Kidnapped army commander in Delta community rescued, rushed to hospital

…How Commander Josiah was rescued — Sources

By Chancel Bomadi Sunday

BOMADI — The service serviceman abducted successful Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, Commander Josiah, has been rescued by a palm-wine tapper and lumberers from the heavy wood of Tuomo community.

Commander Josiah was abducted from his lodge connected Sunday nighttime by equipped youths, who stormed the lodge successful the dormant of the night, ransacked the rooms and whisked distant the service serviceman to the creeks of Burutu Local Government Area of the state.

A assemblage source, who spoke to Vanguard pursuing his rescue, said the service serviceman was recovered successful the heavy wood of Tuomo community, wherever the car successful which the kidnappers carried retired the cognition was abandoned.

How Commander Josiah was Rescued

Two colony sources, who narrated their variant accounts, said: “A young miss near her father’s palm-wine campy successful a canoe aboriginal this greeting to cheque her sportfishing net, and successful the process of checking the nets she saw the service Commander sitting wrong a canoe successful the distance. She rushed backmost location to archer her dada what she had seen.

“Her father, connected getting the news, followed his girl to the country and recovered Commander Josiah sitting successful the canoe, whose hands were tied to 1 of the canoe seats. He besides sustained gunshot wounds to 1 of his legs and hands.

“The palm-wine tapper untied him and took him to his camp. He went to different campy belonging to lumberers and told them the situation. You know, this is flood play and they brought him successful a canoe done the brook that leads to the assemblage this morning.”

The 2nd source, who besides spoke to Vanguard connected the rescue of Commander Josiah, said: “The service serviceman was heard shouting and wailing successful the heavy wood of Tuomo community. That is the wood wherever palm-wine tappers and lumberers found their camps.

On proceeding the anguished outcry from a distance, immoderate lumberers decided to hint the dependable to the location, and connected getting determination they saw the antheral who had gunshots connected 1 of his legs and hands.

“They took him to a palm-wine tapper’s campy and narrated the concern to him. They decided that they would bring him to the community. They took him successful a canoe and rowed done the brook to the assemblage this morning.

“The assemblage past alerted the Bomadi Division of the subject Joint Task Force, JTF, who came and took him away.

However, efforts to talk with the subject bid astatine Bomadi were unfruitful arsenic calls placed connected the commander’s mobile telephone were not answered astatine the clip of filing this report.

But a root successful Bomadi, who confided successful our reporter, said that Commander Josiah had already been taken to an undisclosed infirmary for aesculapian treatment.

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