{"id":99546,"date":"2023-11-02T20:15:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community"},"modified":"2023-11-02T22:30:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:30:48","slug":"police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community","title":{"rendered":"Police rescue 6 kidnap victims, dislodge captors in Plateau community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Plateau State Police Command on Thursday said it has rescued six residents from kidnappers\u2019 den and also dislodged a gang of notorious criminals in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Command disclosed this through its Public Relations Officer, DSP Alfred Alabo, in Jos, the State Capital.<\/p>\n<p>He informed that, however, a hunter, Nuhu Titus, who aided the security in the rescue mission, lost his life in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe Plateau State Police Command in its relentless efforts to get rid of criminal elements in the State has trailed a gang of notorious kidnappers to their den, dislodged them, rescued six kidnapped victims and gunned down one kidnapper.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cOn 1st November 2023, at about 06:00 hours, while acting on credible intelligence about a horrible kidnap incident, that some unidentified suspected kidnappers invaded Gwalada village in Toro LGA of Bauchi State and forcefully kidnapped some residents of the area to a rocky forest in between Tumu, Tsaya and Rumfar Gomna in Bassa LGA, the Divisional Police Officer of Jengre led a combined team of battle ready Police operatives, STF, Security Help Groups to the kidnappers\u2019 camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn sighting the security operatives, the kidnappers engaged them in a gunfight but they were subdued by the superior firepower of the security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, six victims namely, Rashida Hamisu, Mummi Usman, Ibrahim Isa, Ya\u2019u Yahaya, Bala Aminu and Alh. Ishaku Usman, all of Gwalfada, Toro LGA, Bauchi were rescued from the operation while one of the kidnappers was gunned down and his cohorts fled with various degrees of bullet wounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut sadly, one Nuhu Titus, a hunter who aided the security in the rescue operation lost his life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that effort is being intensified to arrest the fleeing suspects and rescue other kidnap victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Police, Plateau State Police Command, CP Okoro J. Alawari, assures Plateau residents of the commitment of the Police to combat crime and criminality in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe vows to do all within his power to ensure that all the 17 Local Government Areas continue to remain safe for all citizens of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The CP warned kidnappers to repent from their atrocious activities or leave Plateau State before the Police apprehend them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Plateau State Police Command on Thursday said it has rescued six residents from kidnappers\u2019 den and also dislodged a gang of notorious criminals in the state. The Command disclosed this through its Public Relations Officer, DSP Alfred Alabo, in Jos, the State Capital. He informed that, however, a hunter, Nuhu Titus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":99545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254,191,165],"class_list":["post-99546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-plateau","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 rescue 6 kidnap victims, dislodge captors in Plateau community - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Plateau State Police Command on Thursday said it has rescued six residents from kidnappers\u2019 den and also dislodged a ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police rescue 6 kidnap victims, dislodge captors in Plateau community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Plateau State Police Command on Thursday said it has rescued six residents from kidnappers\u2019 den and also dislodged a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-02T19:15:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-02T21:30:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1698944286.933054.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1040\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police rescue 6 kidnap victims, dislodge captors in Plateau community\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-02T19:15:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-02T21:30:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community\"},\"wordCount\":387,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1698944286.933054.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Plateau\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-rescue-6-kidnap-victims-dislodge-captors-in-plateau-community\",\"name\":\"Police rescue 6 kidnap victims, dislodge captors in Plateau community - 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