The Police Command in Kogi has launched coordinated bush-combing operations and dismantled suspected criminal hideouts in forest areas along the Okene–Auchi Road, as the search for victims of a recent kidnapping intensifies.
The command’s spokesperson, ASP Afusat Saliu, in a statement on Sunday in Lokoja, said that joint teams of police and the army have deployed to the Ebiya Forest and adjoining corridors within the Okene–Ajaokuta axis to locate the abducted victims and apprehend the perpetrators.
She said that the operation, which was activated immediately after the incident, involved personnel from the Area Command Okene, 77 Police Mobile Force Squadron, Okene Division, Adavi Division, the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, and the Violent Crime Response Unit.
“Also involved are the detachments of the Nigerian Army from Forward Operating Bases in the area, with additional tactical support from the Edo Police Command, including its Anti-Kidnapping Unit,” Saliu said.
The security teams, the command spokesperson said, combed the identified forests and searched for suspected hideouts used by the kidnappers.
