•Intensify efforts to ensure release of others
Eighteen staff and students of Zamfara State College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Bakura, who were abducted by bandits, have been rescued by the state police command.
The rescue efforts were made in collaboration with the state government and other stakeholders, according to the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mohammed Shehu, in a statement on Friday, August 27, 2021.
It will be recalled that suspected bandits invaded the school on Monday, August 16, and abducted the victims to an undisclosed hideout.
Since the incident occurred, the PPRO said that the Commissioner of Police, Ayuba Elkana, working in tandem with the state government and other stakeholders, had directed the command’s operatives to intensify on their search and rescue strategies, in order to rescue the abducted victims hale and hearty.
Shehu said that the abducted victims, who were brought to the Government House by the Commissioner of Police, were handed over to the state governor, Dr. Mohammed Bello Matawalle.
Receiving the staff and students, the governor commended the police and other security agencies for the efforts channelled towards securing their unconditional release.
Matawalle had stated that his administration had taken drastic measures to checkmate and curtail the activities of criminal elements in the state, directing all security agencies to ensure full compliance with the new measures.
During the handover of the students to the governor, CP Elkana thanked him for the support and encouragement rendered to the police and other collaborators that assisted in the successful rescue of the abducted victims.
“All the victims are undergoing medical treatment by the government and police medical team before being reunited with their families,” Shehu further disclosed.
