A team of hunters and neighborhood watch from Okehi and Adavi LGAs in Kogi have killed three alleged kidnappers in a gun battle and arrested two informants linked to them on Saturday morning along Lokoja-Okene highway.
WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the alleged kidnappers were planning to stage an attack on road users on the Lokoja-Okene road before they met their waterloo when two of their informants were arrested
It was also learnt that following an intelligence report, the Senior Special Adviser (SSA), Security in charge of Okehi Local Government Area, Hon Abdulraheem Ohiare and his Adavi counterpart, Hon Joseph Omuya Salami had led the hunters to the hideouts of the kidnappers.
According to the report, the hunters who were on patrol at about 4:30am nabbed two persons identified as Mr Godwin Peter a native of Ikeje in Olamaboro Local Government Area and one Sanni Habib, a native of Idoji in Okene Local Government Area.
The two persons later confessed that they were informants who give information to kidnappers for their operations after being interrogated.
Both informations led the hunters alongside the SSA Security from Adavi and Okehi to the kidnappers’ hideouts where the hunters engaged the kidnappers in a gun battle during which three of them were gunned down while others escaped with gunshots wounds.
Three sophisticated pump action riffles, bullets, masks and charms were recovered from the kidnappers.
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