A police inspector at Rubochi community in Kuje Area Council of the FCT and one other person has been kidnapped by suspected kidnappers.
Reports claimed that the victims, Inspector Selven and Nengba Mundi were abducted in the late hours of Sunday, October 27.
A resident of the community gave the account of the incident, saying it happened at about 2:00am when the gunmen in their large numbers invaded the village.
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He said the gunmen first whisked away the police inspector, before they proceeded to the house of the second victim and also took him away. According to the resident, the gunmen whisked away the police inspector after he failed to surrender his rifle to them.
He said: “The kidnappers whisked away the police inspector after they asked him to surrender the gun he used for patrol on Friday to them but he declined and said he had handed over the rifle at the police station after the patrol.”
It would be recalled that the younger brother of the former council chairman, Mohammed Abdullahi Galadima, was on Saturday abducted in the area by gunmen.
Earlier, The Herald reported that the police in Rivers state on Wednesday shot dead two kidnappers terrorising commuters at the Emohua area of the East-West Road.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, added that 15 suspected kidnappers were also arrested by his men in various parts of the state.
He said the two notorious kidnappers, Emmanuel Fyneface, aka Blade, and Chika Chukwu, aka Odogodo, were killed in the Rumuodogo community during a fierce gun battle with policemen.