Police foil kidnapping attempt at Kubwa Forest after shootout

..Recover AK-47 Rifle and Ammunition

By Kingsley Omonobi

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has foiled a planned kidnapping and equipped onslaught successful Abuja, recovering an AK-47 firearm and ammunition during a coordinated cognition astatine Byazhin Forest, Kubwa.

Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said successful a connection connected Tuesday that the cognition was portion of sustained efforts to guarantee the information and information of residents successful the FCT.

According to her, the cognition followed credible quality received from the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU), Force Headquarters, which indicated an imminent onslaught wrong the territory.

“The quality revealed that a notorious bandit leader, identified arsenic Idrisa, besides known arsenic ‘Mai Duna,’ had concluded plans to motorboat simultaneous attacks connected selected colony settlements astir the Byazhin Forest country of the FCT,” Adeh stated.

Acting connected the information, operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Command deployed tactical teams astir 9 p.m. connected October 10, 2025, and mounted a strategical ambush on the identified routes of the suspected assailants.

“At astir 1:00 a.m. connected October 11, 2025, the constabulary operatives sighted a ample radical of heavy equipped men advancing toward the country successful 2 groups,” she said.

“The squad engaged the criminals successful a fierce weapon conflict that lasted astir 20 minutes. Despite beardown resistance, the operatives overpowered the assailants, forcing them to retreat into the adjacent wood with gunshot wounds.”

Following the encounter, reinforcement was deployed from adjacent constabulary and subject formations, portion further constabulary units secured the country and blocked imaginable flight routes.

A hunt of the country led to the betterment of 1 AK-47 firearm with a defaced serial number, 1 magazine, and 30 rounds of unrecorded 7.6mm ammunition.

The Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, commended the operatives for their gallantry and professionalism, noting that their swift enactment prevented a large information breach.

He directed each aesculapian facilities wrong the FCT and adjoining states to beryllium connected alert and to study immoderate idiosyncratic recovered with gunshot wounds to the nearest constabulary enactment immediately.

The Commissioner besides urged residents to stay vigilant and supply timely accusation to the constabulary done the pursuing exigency numbers: 08032003913, 08028940883, and CRU: 08107314192.

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