Four abducted victims were freed by police officers working for the Enugu State Police Command’s Iwollo Division in a forest at Akama-Oghe in the state’s Ezeagu Local Government.
This was said in a statement made by DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the command’s spokesman, on Sunday in Enugu.
Ndukwe claimed that at around 10 a.m. on December 24, members of Neighborhood Watch and Forest Guards collaborated to accomplish the feat.
“Those rescued in the hands of kidnappers in a forest at Akama-Oghe in Ezeagu Local Government Area were three males and one female, reported to have been kidnapped along 9th-Mile/Eke/Akama-Oghe Road on Friday at about 8pm.
“The police operatives also recovered a black-coloured Mercedes Benz car belonging to one of the victims, while all the victims have been debriefed and reunited with their families,” he said.
The police spokesman said that the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Ahmed Ammani, had ordered tactical operatives of the command to sustain ongoing manhunt of the fleeing kidnap suspects.
He added that the suspects abandoned the victims and escaped due to the intense pressure mounted by the combined team of security personnel to rescue the victims and apprehend them.