Crime & SecurityTwo Kidnapers Killed, One Escape With Gunshot Wounds While Collecting Ransom

Mr. Ovanja Yakubu, the Divisional Police Officer, Okehi local government area of Kogi State has confirmed that two kidnappers were gunned down in the early hours of Tuesday while collecting ransom on their victims from one of the neighbouring states.

He said men of the Nigeria police in his division have been drafted to join professional hunters to apprehend the third kidnapper dead or alive.

“The success of the operation followed an actionable intelligence report, and professional hunters in the Okehi local government area of the state ambushed the kidnappers who came out in the Abobo area behind Nigerian Iron Ore Mining Company, Itakpe to collect the ransom demanded before the release of their victims.”

“Two of the three kidnappers were killed in the process while one escaped into the bush with gunshot wounds and the captives were freed in the operation,” he added.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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