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Police Rescue 4, Kill 3 Kidnappers In Adamawa
Four persons kidnapped have been rescued by the police in Adamawa State while three of the kidnappers were killed in a gun battle with officers and men of the Command.
The victims were recured in Damare hills connecting part of Holma and Sorau in Song and Maiha local government areas of the state.
In a press statement signed by the command spokesman, SP Suleiman Yahaya Ngoroje, the police recovered two AK-47 rifles, one pump action, handsets, chains, pard-locks charms, and others.
The statement added that operations, which were carried out by the Command operatives attached to Sorau Division and the Hunters at Damare Hill, a grazing reserve situated at a remote side of Sorau District, Holma Village in Maiha and Song local government areas and border of Cameroon Republic yielded positive result.
According to the PPRO, “the outcome of these successes was as a result of the follow-up strategy designed by the command to checkmate cases bordering on kidnapping, armed robbery, Cattle rustling, unlawful possession of firearms, amongst others”.
Noting that “the suspected kidnappers upon sighting our men engaged them in a gun dwell as a result three (3) of them were neutralized, others escaped with bullet wounds.”
The victims rescued are 50 years old Hafsatu Musa, Idirisa Hammadu, Abdul Adamu and Musa Hammadu all residents of Holma/Maiha in Song and Maiha local government.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru Akande, while commending the DPO of Sorou, his men and members of the hunters for disconnecting the criminal network and gallantry performance displayed, directed other DPOs to do same as a strategy for checkmating crimes and criminals in their areas of responsibility.
The CP called on the people of the state to always inform the police of the whereabouts of criminals and their hideouts, especially those on the run with bullet wounds.
The police boss equally assured the government and good people of Adamawa state, of the command’s sustained effort to dislodge all criminal hideous and black sports in Adamawa State.
