{"id":150342,"date":"2025-02-14T22:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-recover-stolen-livestock-rescue-kidnapped-victim-in-niger"},"modified":"2025-02-14T22:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:21:43","slug":"police-recover-stolen-livestock-rescue-kidnapped-victim-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-recover-stolen-livestock-rescue-kidnapped-victim-in-niger","title":{"rendered":"Police recover stolen livestock, rescue kidnapped victim in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Niger State Police Command has successfully freed a kidnapped victim and recovered a large quantity of stolen livestock.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, the kidnapped victim, identified as Cornelius Damulak, a 36-year-old student of Veritas University, Abuja, was rescued on 14 February 2025 along the Pogo-Paiko highway.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that Damulak had been abducted from his residence in Bwari, Abuja, on 6 February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Abiodun explained that the victim had been held captive for eight days before managing to escape from his kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cFortunately, he was able to escape from the abductors on 13 February 2025 and found himself along the Pogo-Paiko highway, Minna, after trekking a long distance. He was immediately rescued and taken to the Division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to a nearby hospital for medical attention, while efforts to locate his relatives are being intensified.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate operation, police operatives attached to Maitumbi Division intercepted a vehicle loaded with stolen cattle along the Gwada-Maitumbi Road.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, Mohammed Ibrahim, Ibrahim Yakubu, and three others, were arrested and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the stolen livestock, comprising eleven cows and thirty-four sheep, had been stolen from a compound in Kuchi, Munya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring interrogation, Mohammed Ibrahim confessed that he stole the animals from one Saleh\u2019s compound in the same village and was transporting them to Minna for sale,\u201d the police spokesman further disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The animals were recovered and are currently being held as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are under investigation and efforts to locate the rightful owner of the animals are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Niger State Police Command has successfully freed a kidnapped victim and recovered a large quantity of stolen livestock. According to a statement released by the command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, the kidnapped victim, identified as Cornelius Damulak, a 36-year-old student of Veritas University, Abuja, was rescued on 14 February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":150341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[470,254,165],"class_list":["post-150342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police recover stolen livestock, rescue kidnapped victim in Niger - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-recover-stolen-livestock-rescue-kidnapped-victim-in-niger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police recover stolen livestock, rescue kidnapped victim in Niger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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