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<\/p>\nForce Spokesman, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, said in a statement in Abuja that the victims were rescued by operatives attached to \u201cOperation Puff Adder\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mba said that the Chinese citizens who were earlier kidnapped on April 15, in Bobi, Niger, were rescued on Sunday in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State.<\/p>\n
He said that their rescue followed painstaking investigative efforts, including air and ground surveillance, NAN reports<\/p>\n
The spokesman said that two of the kidnappers died from injuries sustained during exchange of gun fire with the police in the course of the rescue.<\/p>\n
He said that the 22 other kidnap victims were rescued in Zamfara and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n
Mba said that between January and first week of May, 270 suspected kidnappers and 275 suspected armed robbers were arrested by the police.<\/p>\n
He added that 105 assorted weapons and a large cache of ammunition were also recovered from the suspects during the period.<\/p>\n
The spokesman said that the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had reassured the nation that the end of violent crimes and criminal activities was in sight.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe promises that the force under his leadership will continue to work with other relevant stakeholders in the task of making Nigeria safer and better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mba said that in continuation of the efforts of the police to bring to an end the current internal security challenges, it had rolled out new counter-kidnapping strategies.<\/p>\n
He said that the new strategies were targeted at identifying, locating and dismantling kidnapping gangs across the nation and bringing them and their collaborators to justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is designed to complement and strengthen the \u2018Operation Puff Adder\u2019 currently going on in several states of the Federation,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
Mba explained that the operation would involve the deployment of undercover operatives, decoy operations and high-level tactical missions.<\/p>\n
He said that they would be drawn from the conventional police units, Force Intelligence Unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS) Special Anti-kidnapping Squads.<\/p>\n
Others, according to him, were Police Tactical Units comprising Police Mobile Force, Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) and the Special Forces.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Police on Thursday said they have rescued 27 kidnapped persons, including five Chinese nationals abducted in Niger State. Force Spokesman, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, said in a statement in Abuja that the victims were rescued by operatives attached to \u201cOperation Puff Adder\u201d. Mba said that the Chinese citizens who were earlier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[4866,11811,56,11949],"class_list":["post-115710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-crime","tag-kidnapped","tag-niger","tag-nigerians-chinese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}