Police Rescue Kidnap Victim, Arrest Two Suspects In Kwara

The Kwara State Police Command has said that it rescued an abducted victim identified as Sule Saidu who was allegedly kidnapped at Ahuro Fulani Camp in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state on Friday.

The police, in a press statement signed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Victor Olaiya, made available to journalists on Monday, said that it arrested two key suspects and recovered firearms in an operation carried out on Saturday.

The police said in the statement that Saidu was kidnapped in the Fulani camp at about 11pm on Friday by five armed men.

The police said that following a report received on the incident, it launched a joint rescue operation with other security agencies including the police detectives, hunters and vigilante groups along the Babanla/Oreke axis.

It said that during the operation, the victim was rescued while one of the bandits was killed and two others arrested with a rifle and charms recovered from them.

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