Zamfara State Police Command in a joint Operation with men from “Operation Hadarin Daji” have secured the release of 6 abductees from their captors on Sunday along Gobirawa forest of Anka local government area of the state.
In a statement by the state police Command Public Relations Officer SP Shehu Muhammad reads “the abductees were kidnapped on the 14th of June 2020 while they were at their respective farms and taken to Gobirawa forest by their abductors”.
According to the statement, five ourt of the six victims were from Tubiki Village in Anka Local government while the other person was a native of Yankaina Village in Maru Local government area of Zamfara State respectively
SP Shehu Muhammad further explained that, the abductees after being rescued were reunited with their families on Sunday.
He said, the successes was part of the joint effort of security stakeholders led by the State Police Commissioner Barr. Usman Nagogo and assured the public that effort will be sustained to ensuring that, kidnapping and other acts of banditry have been checkmated and dealt with accordingly.
It could be recall that, the State Police Command in collaboration with the state government and other security stakeholders especially the military have embarked on deployment of joint security operatives in different flash point areas of the state aimed at fighting recalcitrant elements who refused to embrace the existing peace accord championed by the State Government.
Some of the areas where such deployment was made included Gemawa in Talata Mafara, Kwali in Bukkuyum, Kwantaragi, Mutunji and Bindin in Maru local government areas of the state.
