Two personnel of the Nigerian Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) who have been kidnapped alongside the Chairman of Akwanga Native Authorities Space of Nasarawa State, Safiyanu Andaha, have regained their freedom.
Recall that the council boss chairman was kidnapped alongside his buddy, Adamu Customized, and the opposite victims at Ningo village alongside the Akwanga-Andaha Highway.
The state NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Jerry Victor, confirmed their launch completely to the punch on Wednesday, January 3, 2023, in Lafia.
In response to Jerry, the 2 NSCDC personnel have been touring with the Akwanga LG chairman after they have been barricaded by the gunmen who confronted them of their numbers and whisked them away.
The NSCDC spokesman, nonetheless, mentioned as a result of tense state of affairs throughout the operation, the safety operatives didn’t repel the bandits with their arms as a result of doing so may in all probability have endangered the lives of the chairman, his buddy and different motorists plying the highway.
“Sure, two personnel of the Nasarawa State Command of the NSCDC have been kidnapped on Monday alongside the Chairman of Akwanga LG. Certainly one of them is connected to his workplace whereas the opposite one is his ally who was off obligation on that fateful day,” he acknowledged.
“They have been kidnapped collectively however the personnel working with the native authorities chairman was courageous sufficient to rapidly determine the risk
“What he did was to gallantly protect his rifle. The aim was to guard himself and to additionally shield his principal, as a result of if the bandits knew that he had a rifle with him, there would have been an amazing injury.
“The opposite NSCDC personnel was not on obligation when the incident occurred. He merely joined the chairman as an ally for the brand new yr celebration to Ningo village that day.
“After they have been kidnapped, the Military later got here and took the rifle the place he (chairman’s safety aide) gallantly stored it. The rifle is presently with the Military and the 2 personnel are nonetheless within the hospital for medical consideration since they regained freedom,”
The abductors had on Tuesday morning demanded a ransom of N50 million earlier than they’d be launched to their households.
Nonetheless, a supply near the victims informed journalists in Lafia on Tuesday evening that N10m was later paid to the abductors to safe their launch after intensed negotiations.
The supply added that after the ransom was paid to the bandits, they dropped the victims behind a filling station alongside Bayan Dutse Highway, an outskirt of Andaha city to allow their households to find them.
“They have been launched round 9pm on Tuesday behind a filling station at Bayan Dutse Highway after N10m was paid as ransom
The abductors who’re suspected to be herdsmen stored taking the victims by a number of bush paths which made them very drained,”
“However instantly they regained freedom, they have been escorted by safety males to the hospital for medical consideration, and have been later reunited with their households,” the supply mentioned.
In the meantime, the spokesperson of the State Police Command, DSP Ramhan Nansel, has mentioned no ransom was paid to safe the discharge of the council chairman and the three different victims.
Nansel mentioned the discharge of the 4 victims adopted sustained strain on the abductors, including that the bandits have been left with no different possibility than to set the victims free.
“The command’s Anti-kidnaping unit and the Akwanga Divisional Patrol staff had been deployed to Andaha village to convey the kidnap victims to Akwanga for medical examination earlier than reuniting them with their households,” the PPRO mentioned.