…Televangelist, Judge’s Wife abducted Near Military Headquarters In Adamawa – BarristerNG.com…
The Shilla notoriety is marked as first challenge Rt Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri concentrated to address after having been sworn in as Adamawa State Governor inin 2019 and the proactive position was commendable.
However the Shillas buried the pejorative, mischievously moved as prodigal gangs into society to be integrated enough to be reduced to handbags and handsets snatching using commercial tricycles called Keke Napep, taking law into citizens’s hands by means of mob action, some of the apprehended criminals were reported to be burnt alive with their tricycle. However, the clerics and the security agency frowned against the jungle justice.
It is not clear whether or not the Shilla group eventually joined the criminals who later engaged in the Kidnapping for ransom across the state. The challenge that frustrated farming activities and other businesses in the state.
The government through the security agencies, hunters and vigilante allied force, worked collectively assiduously to nip the menace in the bud.
However, the abduction for ransom is reported resurfacing in the heart of the state capital. A growing suburb, said not to be far from the the 23 Brigade of the Nigerian Army Headquarters in Yola, called Nyibango, occupied mainly by elites.
About two weeks ago, the suspected bandits were reported to have kidnapped a popular televangelist, Rev. Mike Ochigbo, in the same Nyibango area the wife of a High Court judge, Zainab Abbas was reported to be abducted around 2am on Wednesday.
Confirming the ugly incident to the newsmen, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje said “The victim was kidnapped at her residence behind Royal Ambassadors Hotel in the Nyibango neighbourhood.
“The Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Babatola, deployed operatives of the command, drawn from the Crack Squad, Special Rapid Response Team (SRRT) and other tactical squads to carry out a tactical and intelligence driven rescue operation on criminal hideouts and black spots to rescue the kidnapped wife of the High Court Judge, arrest the kidnappers and their collaborators that are bent to fomenting troubles in the state.
“Those deployed to rescue the victim will ensure the arrest of the culprits as a further manifestation of the command’s determination to diligently prosecute offenders.
“This deployment will surely assist in coordinating timely response to distress calls and to clamp down on those found committing crimes, as the command has deployed electronic devices to record pictorial evidences of those involved.
“The CP has equally directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations and Deployment to coordinate the designed rescue operation as all divisional police officers are to adopt a stop and Search exercise in their respective areas of responsibility, especially midnights to ensure total domination of the public space, prevent escape of criminals and possible arrest of trouble makers.”
Some of the Nyibango residents have started thinking of joining some of their former neighbours who have already relocated to other places to avoid the threatening abduction for ransom, especially in the time of rising cost of living occasioned by the suspension of the fuel subsidy.