Nicholas Kalu, Abuja
AN unspecified number of commuters have been kidnapped on the Piri Kwali Expressway in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
The passengers were kidnapped on Sunday when the kidnappers shot at the Toyota Previa bus they were traveling in, forcing the driver to stop, The Nation gathered. The FCT police command said four of the kidnap suspects have been arrested.
The command got a distress call on the incident and responded immediately, an action which possibly saved more passengers from being abducted, the spokesman DSP Anjuguri Manzah said in a statement.
The statement reads, “Police operatives from FCT Command, while responding to a distress call on Sunday, 2nd February, 2020, in Piri Kwali Expressway, arrested four suspected kidnappers, whose syndicate fired several shots at a Toyota Previa bus and kidnapped some of its passengers after the bus was forced to stop.
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“While some of the passengers were rescued by the joint effort of the police and some youths of the nearby community, others are still with the kidnappers.
“The four suspects arrested by the police operatives are Shuaibu Sule, 27, Mohammadu Usman, 25, Umar Usman, 19, and Usman Ibrahim, 20, all of Kamadi village, Kwali.
“Exhibits recovered from the suspects are one dane gun, two cutlasses, one iron bar, and one AK 47 ammunition shell.
The police said effort was being made to rescue the other victims and arrest their abductors.
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