CP Kanayo Uzoegbu
The Police Command in Enugu State says it’s operatives have neutralised two kidnappers and rescued one male kidnapped victim (name withheld) at Centenary Layout along Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway.
The Command also recovered a black-coloured Lexus 350 Jeep belonging to the victim and one locally made revolver gun loaded with four cartridges and another locally fabricated pistol belonging to the criminal elements.
DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) disclosed this on Tuesday in Enugu in a statement.
Ndukwe said that police operatives, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in-charge of Operations, DCP, Olasoji Akinbayo, carried out the successful operation on Aug. 20.
He said that the police operatives were drawn from the NPF Special Forces; Awkunanaw Police Division and Tactical Teams of the Enugu State Police Command.
“Following the policing thrust and renewed crime fighting impetus of the state’s Commissioner of Police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, a combined team of police operatives rescued a male kidnap victim (names withheld), after a gun fight with the hoodlums.
“One of the miscreants, simply identified as “Baron”, was neutralised on-the-spot in the ensuing shootout, while others escaped with varying degrees of gunshot wounds.
“However, further manhunt of the fleeing members of the gang led to the discovery and recovery of the lifeless body of the second neutralised hoodlum.
“The second neutralised hoodlum was simply identified as Chukwunonso a.k.a. “Nolly”, in the morning hours of Aug. 21 in a forest at the location of the gun duel,” he said.
Ndukwe said that the two neutralised members of the criminal gang had been on the criminals’ watch-list of the Command.
According to him, the operational success was due to the operatives’ swift response to a distress call on the kidnap of the victim along Agbani Road, Enugu, in the said night.
The police spokesman commended the police operatives for quickly adapting to his newly introduced crime-fighting strategies.
He said that the commissioner had previously tasked police officers and other police personnel of the Command to sustain the tempo.
“There will be no breathing space for unrepentant criminals in the state, under his (Uzuegbu) watch as the Commissioner of Police,” he added.
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