Security Agents, Hunters Rescue 17 Kidnap Passengers In Kogi

Security agencies and section hunters person rescued 17 passengers kidnapped on the Lokoja–Obajana Road of Kogi State past Thursday.

In a connection signed by the Commissioner for Information and Communications successful the state, Kingsley Femi Fanwo, the Kogi State authorities confirmed that the victims were freed pursuing punctual involution of the Nigerian Army and section hunters, who pursued the abductors and ensured the harmless merchandise of each passengers.

Fanwo said the rescued victims person since been taken to aesculapian facilities for introspection and care.

The authorities besides expressed heavy interest implicit reported onslaught connected information operatives successful Yagba West section authorities area, resulting successful the decease of immoderate constabulary officers.

While expressing condolence to the families of the slain officers, the State described the victims arsenic gallant men who paid the ultimate terms successful the enactment of duty.

Fanwo stated that Governor Usman Ododo has reaffirmed his administration’s determination to escaped the State of transgression elements, assuring that unit and information instrumentality were being deployed to strategical locations to reconstruct security.

He called connected citizens to cooperate with information operatives by providing timely and utile information, stressing that the perpetrators of the attacks volition beryllium brought to justice.

Fanwo vowed that, “The Government of Kogi State volition ne'er taxable to acts of terror,” assuring, “Together with the enactment of the radical and the committedness of our information agencies, we volition flooded those who question to disrupt the bid of our land”.

LEADERSHIP recalls that 3 policemen were killed connected Tuesday, successful Egbe, a borderline assemblage betwixt Kogi and Kwara States, wherever kidnappings and different convulsive crimes person been connected the emergence successful caller time.