By Francis Nansak Lafia
Last Friday night, an unconfirmed figure of persons traveling from Enugu to Abuja were kidnapped along Nasarawa -Keffi road.
But in a swift response upon information reaching the Police even after the act had been committed,three of the passengers had been rescued and the vehicle recovered.
Confirming the incident, the Nasarawa State Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel, said on Friday night, information was received that an 18-seater bus conveying passengers from Enugu to Abuja was attacked at Doruwa village, Nasarawa-Keffi road and an unspecified number of people abducted.
He added that Police operatives, in collaboration with other security agencies, responded swiftly, but the act was committed before the information came.
” The hoodlums were trailed, and the area combed. Consequently, 3 people were rescued, and the vehicle recovered to the police station. Search and rescue operations are ongoing to arrest the criminals and rescue the victims” He stated
However, our correspondent gathered that not fewer than 30 occupants of two commercial vehicles were said to have been abducted by people suspected to be kidnappers along Nasarawa Road in Nasarawa State.
The gunmen who reportedly abducted their victims and took them into the bush are said to have contacted families of two of their victims, demanding for N10m ransome for the release of each of victims.
It was gathered that the passengers were abducted between the axis of Keffi and Karu local government areas along Nasarawa road.
Our correspondent gathered that a driver of one of the two vehicles names withheld, escaped, a pregnant woman was beaten and abandoned, while an old man said to be suffering from stroke was also left behind for delaying the movement of the suspected kidnappers into the bush.
The escaped driver whose name was not immediately obtained at the time of filling this report was said to have reported the incident to the Uke Division of the Nasarawa State Command of the Nigerian police.
One of the Victim’s relatives, who spoke to Journalists on account of anonymity said the whereabouts of their sister, a second-year student of the Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, was yet unknown, adding that they were yet to be contacted however by her abductors.
“Our sister was kidnapped last Friday while on her way from school. I was contacted on Saturday by the police because the driver recovered some of the victim’s phones, and my sister’s own was among those recovered.
“Though I gathered that the military and the police are currently in the bush on the trail of the suspected kidnappers as well as trying to ensure the rescue of the victims,.