{"id":133428,"date":"2024-10-07T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/army-rescue-kidnapped-corps-member-others-in-benue"},"modified":"2024-10-07T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:35:28","slug":"army-rescue-kidnapped-corps-member-others-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/army-rescue-kidnapped-corps-member-others-in-benue","title":{"rendered":"Army rescue kidnapped corps member, others in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Troops of the 401 Special Forces Brigade, Nigerian Army in collaboration with Sector One have rescued a member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, and six other victims from kidnappers in Tse-Annaka, along Wukari\/Zaki-Biam, in Ukum local government area of Benue State.<\/p>\n<p>The corps member was identified as a 29-year-old law graduate, Samuel Muekara.<\/p>\n<p>Other rescued victims who were kidnapped at different dates and times within the same location include Anaelechi Bob, 32, Ayuba Luka, 28, Ibrahim Umar, 30, Rabiu Muhammad, 48, Buhari Ahmadu Saleh, 17 and Blessing Ayuba, 47.<\/p>\n<p>A security personnel who spoke with DAILY POST on condition of anonymity identified the bandits terrorising the Sankara axis as \u201cFull Fire\u201d, Ayongo, Chen and his group.<\/p>\n<p>He said the bandits belong to the gang of the notorious criminal kingpin in Benue, late Terwase Akwaza, also known as Gana<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese notorious armed bandits are well known to the people living in those areas and any attempt to get information from them, they claim not to know, whereas they know them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people must understand that security is a collective effort from all and sundry and therefore, the communities should be able to always volunteer necessary information to security agencies, especially our troops to help them fish out the perpetrators of crime among them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the rescued victims who spoke at the military camp in Zaki\u2013Biam, Ukum local government area where they were taken to, said they were kidnapped and kept hostage for days before the intervention of the military troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of us were taken to the neighbouring settlements like Chito village, Adamawa village, Atereyange village, Ututu village and Pevkyaa village all of Ukum local government area where these heavily armed bandits are using as their hideouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese armed bandits have made kidnapping in these communities their major source of income and they do it in broad daylight without fear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey are living with their families who usually come to give us food in their hideouts. People living around there see them perpetrating these evils but they are helpless to voice it out for fear of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of us (victims) known as Rabiu Muhammad who came to pay ransom for his cousin Ibrahim Umar, became a kidnapped victim himself after he had paid the ransom\u201d, one of the victims said.<\/p>\n<p>Another victim identified as Blessing Ayuba said she was also kidnapped after she came to pay a ransom for her son, Luka Ayuba.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, the rescued youth corps member said that after the families of seven victims jointly raised over N20 million and paid as ransom with other valuables worth millions of naira forcibly taken away, they were still held captive until the military came to their rescue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Troops of the 401 Special Forces Brigade, Nigerian Army in collaboration with Sector One have rescued a member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, and six other victims from kidnappers in Tse-Annaka, along Wukari\/Zaki-Biam, in Ukum local government area of Benue State. 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