Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted one Inspector Emmanuel Yaro, serving with the Taraba State Police Command.
Yaro’s abduction was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Abdullahi Usman.
According to the spokesman of the police, the inspector, working the Kurmi division of the state command, was abducted from his farm on Sunday.
Shortly after buying food for the labourers he took to his farm to work, the gunmen reportedly stormed the place and whisked the police officer away.
The incident reportedly happened in Gidan-Idi village of the area of the state.
“The inspector, on taking the workers to his farm, decided to go to a nearby village to buy food for them.
“Immediately he left, the kidnappers stormed his farm and held the workers hostage.
“Unknown to him, he came back and met the kidnappers who immediately released the workers and went away with the inspector,” Usman said.
He said only the inspector was abducted, dismissing reports that a pastor, his wife, and six other persons were abducted in the state.
While reiterating the command’s readiness to clamp down on hoodlums making life unbearable for the people of the state, he warned social media users to always verify their information with the relevant authorities before posting them.
The abduction of the inspector comes barely a week after Governor Agbu Kefas urged the security chiefs to deploy more operatives and establish a naval base in Taraba.
Meanwhile, two people including a yet-to-be-identified military officer and a sugarcane vendor were on Sunday crushed to death by a truck in Jebba in Moro local government area of Kwara State.
The incident reportedly happened at one of the checkpoints in the town.
According to a resident, the vehicle veered off the road before hitting the victims.
He said, “The incident occurred at a checkpoint in the town when the truck veered off the road and hit the victims.”
The sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Frederick Ogidan, confirmed the accident on Sunday.
According to him, “It was a lone accident involving a DAF truck which lost control and hit the victims.
He said, “Four people were affected, they were all males but two of them died while the other two didn’t sustain any injury.”