May 23, 2026
The Police Command in Ondo State says it has rescued 12 victims abducted during a kidnapping incident which occurred in the early hours of Saturday at Isua-Akoko, Akoko South-East Local Government Area of the state.
DSP Abayomi Jimoh, the command’s spokesperson, who made this known in a statement on Saturday in Akure, said the victims were in two commercial Hiace buses conveying passengers from Benue State en route to Ibadan.
Jimoh said the rescue followed a distress report received by the command at about 0130 hrs that the passengers of commercial buses had been violently intercepted by suspected armed kidnappers.
According to him, the attackers reportedly forced several passengers out of the vehicles and marched them into a nearby forest.
