Police, Army Rescue Najeebah’s Sisters, Other Kidnap Victims in Abuja

The relentless raids of the Federal Capital Territory by the Police Command Anti-Kidnapping squad in conjunction with troops of the Nigerian Army, the joint security team on Saturday night led to rescuing several kidnapped persons abducted at the Zuma 1 area of Bwari Area Council on January 2.

The FCT Police Command in a statement signed by SP Josephine Adeh noted that the operatives successfully rescued the Victims around Kajuru forest in Kaduna state at about 11:30 pm on Saturday 20th January 2024.

Recall that suspected bandits on January 2nd and 3rd attacked Zuma community in Bwari Area Council of the FCT in the early hours of that day injuring two policemen and kidnapping about 10 persons including a father, Mansoor Kadriyar and his six children, which are all girls.

During the attack, the victims quickly alerted a middle-aged man identified as Alhaji who mobilized policemen to try and foil the kidnapping of the seven family members and others but he was shot by the bandits.

Alhaji (Abdulfatai Kadriyar) was later discovered to be a brother of Mansoor Kadriyar.

During the exchange of gunfire, two of the policemen were injured before the bandits made away with the victims.