Operatives of Nigeria Police Force Enugu Command have neutralized two kidnappers in the state while rescuing their victim after a gun battle.
The command’s spokesperson, DSP Daniel Ndukwe who disclosed this via a press statement made available to newsmen on Monday, said the successful operation was carried out by a combined team of Police Operatives drawn from the NPF Special Forces, Awkunanaw Police Division and Tactical Teams of the Enugu State Command.
Ndukwe narrated that the team led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of Operations, DCP Olasoji Akinbayo, rescued the male victim on Sunday, 20th August, 2023 at about 8pm, at Centenary, along Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway, after a gun fight with the hoodlums.
“One of the miscreants, simply identified as ‘Baron’ was neutralized on-the-spot in the ensuing gun duel, while others escaped with varying degrees of gunshot wounds. The victim’s black-coloured Lexus 350 Jeep was recovered alongside 1 locally made revolver gun loaded with for 4 cartridges and another locally fabricated pistol belonging to the criminal elements.
“However, further manhunt of the fleeing members of the gang led to the discovery and recovery of the lifeless body of the second neutralized hoodlum, simply identified as Chukwunonso a.k.a. ‘Nolly’, in the morning hours of Monday, 21st August, 2023, in a forest at the location of the gun duel.”
Ndukwe further stated that “the two neutralized members of the criminal gang have been on the criminals’ watch-list of the Command, while the operational success was due to the Operatives’ swift response to a distress call on the kidnap of the victim, along Agbani Road Enugu, on the said night.”
The Spokesman of the Command attributed the breakthrough to the “policing thrust and renewed crime fighting impetus of CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, psc (+),” the new police commissioner of Enugu state.
He also stated that “CP Uzuegbu, while commending the Operatives for quickly adapting to his newly introduced crime-fighting strategies, tasked them and all other Police personnel of the Command to sustain the tempo, stressing that there will be no breathing space for unrepentant criminals in the State, under his watch as the Commissioner of Police.
