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The Adamawa State Police Command have dislodged a criminal hide out and successfully neutralised 3 suspected kidnappers rescuing 2 victims.
The command has also recovered Pump Action, Single Barrel Gun and locally fabricated revolver gun, handsets, chains, mats, charms among other items from the suspects.
In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, said that the command’s operatives attached to Crack Squad in a joint operation with Hunters of Tapital Pulaaku Association recorded the success.
SP Nguroje said that the operation was carried out on the 24th January, 2024, aimed at disconnecting the criminal network at Koma hill, connecting part of Kojoli and Karlahi Districts of Jada and Fufore LGAs respectively.
“The outcome of these successes followed a security strategy designed by the command to checkmate crime bordering on kidnapping, armed robbery, cattle rustling, unlawful possession of firearms, amongst others.
“The suspected kidnappers on the 24th January, 2024, stormed some cattle range of one Alhaji Jibo Karlahi and whisked away Umar Jibo, 18-years and Idi Hassan, 13years to their hideout,” Nguroje explained.
Meanwhile the PPRO has noted that the command mobilised the rescue team who went after the kidnappers, saying that on sighting their men, the suspects engaged them in a gun duel as a result 3 of them were neutralized, others escaped with bullet wounds.
The Commissioner of Police, Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi commended the team, as he urged his men to sustain and maintain the tempo as a strategy to checkmate crime in the state.
CP Afolabi assured the good people of Adamawa state of sustained effort to dislodge all criminal hideouts.
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