JOINT SECURITY TEAM RESCUES KIDNAPPED VICTIMS

Two kidnap victims, identified as Iorfa Solomon, 35 and Blessing Kingsley, 37 have been rescued by a security team engaging in the bush combing of the forest between Ekiti and Kogi states.

In the process, the team arrested suspected kidnapper, Abubakar Kabiru, a suspected kidnapper.

The Police Public Relations Officer of Kogi State Command, Sunday Abutu, stated that investigation showed that the two victims were kidnapped at Aluta Bar, Ikoyi in Kogi State at about 9pm on June 4, 2026.

In a statement made available to Newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday evening, Abutu said “The Police operatives in collaboration with the military, Amotekun Corps and the local vigilantes, while on bush combing operations, discovered a den of kidnappers inside the forest between Irele-Ekiti in Ekiti State and Ogbe in Kogi State where two victims, Solomon and Kingsley, were held hostage.

“Upon sighting the operatives, the suspected kidnappers engaged them in a gun duel and in the process, one of the suspects was arrested while other members of the gang escaped. Meanwhile, the two victims were rescued unhurt.

“Investigation revealed that the two victims were kidnapped while on duty at Aluta Bar, Ikoyi in Kogi State on 4th June, 2026 at about 9pm.

“The victims narrated that the hoodlums numbering about eight, armed with guns, surrounded them at the bar, shot sporadically into the air and whisked the two of them away into the forest while other people at the bar managed to escape.

“During interrogation, the arrested suspected kidnapper, Kabiru, confessed to the commission of the crime. He identified the two people rescued as their victims while the victims also identified him as one of the hoodlums that kidnapped them.