The Enugu State Police Command says its operatives have rescued the security man abducted alongside a female nurse by armed hoodlums in the morning hours of yesterday at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state.
A statement by the spokesman of the police in Enugu, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed that the victim was rescued at Ishi-Ozalla in the same Local Government Area at about 11.45 p.m. on the same date of the incident.
Ndukwe stated that the freedom of the security man followed the intense operations immediately launched to rescue the victims and apprehend the assailants.
“Consequently, the Commissioner of Police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, psc (+), has ordered the Police Operatives and the complementary teams from the Neighborhood Watch Group, Forest Guards and Local Vigilantes to ensure that everything is done to rescue the female nurse and arrest the hoodlums,” Ndukwe said in the statement.
The CP also enjoined the public, particularly residents of the Ituku-Ozalla community and environs to report any suspected individuals found within their residential areas or in the forest.
