Troops of the Nigerian Army have launched a search-and-rescue mission for a Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Gyadi Gyadi, in Pambegua, Kubau Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who was abducted by terrorists.
The Chief Superintendent of Police was said to have been kidnapped on Monday morning along Kaduna-Birnin Gwari road.
He was said to have run into the gunmen at a community “called Korna Ruwa and was whisked away to an unknown location.”
Reports say soldiers are combing the area and would leave no stone unturned to rescue the senior police officer.
“Our guys are in the bush now looking to see maybe he can be rescued. We got a distress call that a man going to Birnin Gwari was abducted by gunmen; it was when we arrived at where his car was parked that we realised he is a senior police officer,” reports quoted an army officer as saying.
Gyadi’s abduction came a few days after the DPO in charge of Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, CSP Haruna Abdulmalik, was abducted by terrorists.
In recent months, Kaduna has witnessed a spate of violent attacks which had led to killings and abduction of residents.
On March 28, a Kaduna-bound train was attacked by gunmen, which led to the death of eight people and the abduction of several others.
Some of the abducted people are in the custody of the gunmen.
Days after the train attack, 11 soldiers were killed in an attack by gunmen at a military base in Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna State.