The Police Intelligence Response Team, Port Harcourt Sector, has rescued a man who was kidnapped by suspected Fulani Bandits in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The kidnappers on Friday, June 12, abducted Mr Kingson Nyienaakuna and his wife but later released the woman to go source for 10 million naira ransom for her husband's freedom, Eons Intelligence gathered.

Fortunately, operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team in Port Harcourt on June 16 swept into action and rescued the victim before any ransom was paid while one of the Kidnappers was subdued and arrested.

Eons Intelligence gathered that the kidnappers are Fulani men, and the police are currently interrogating one of the culprits in their custody identified as Adamu Muhammed from Bauchi state. 

The visibly shaken survivor, Kingson Nyienaakuna, in a video expressed his gratitude to DCP Abba Kyari, the Officer-in-Charge of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Adamu Ahmadu, the Commander IRT in Port Harcourt and the entire IRT team. 

 "They did for me what I never believed the Nigeria Police could do. We always hear that Nigeria police is your friend, but today, I want to say that Nigeria police are more than your friends," Nyienaakuna testified. 

FULANI KIDNAPPERS IN THE SOUTH? 

Speaking on the incident, the brother of Mr Nyienaakuna said while his brother was in captivity, the criminals claimed that they were trained by the Nigerian military and are well acquainted with the terrain in the region.

"While my brother was in detention, these demons boasted to him that they are well trained by military personnel and knows our terrain more than we do.

The name of the one captured is Adamu Mohammed from Bauchi State. They have small kidnapping groups scattered in the thick and unforgiving bushes and forests in the south-south states. From what I gathered from the police, they came in droves into the south either to do menial jobs or engage in criminality (Kidnapping/armed robbery)," he said.

IGNORANTLY RUNNING AWAY FROM SALVATION

Speaking further, Mr Nyienaakuna's brother said in their bid to keep him alive, the family avoided the police, which made the family ignore calls from the IGP-IRT (Inspector General of Police intelligence response team, Port Harcourt sector).

"Our reluctance to allow them to carry the operation was to prevent our brother being caught in the crossfire or to make the bandits kill him in anger for involving the police as they have been warning us not to involve the police else they will kill him immediately," he revealed. 

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However, the IRT's persistence paid off, and the family eventually was forced to collaborate with the police.

"We reluctantly arrived their office Sunday night and they immediately insisted they will accompany her for Ransom payment Monday morning by 6 am (this was already 2 am, 4hrs to commencement of operation). 

This was purely divine intervention as the Fulani Bandit already told my brother that they will collect the ransom from the wife and still keep him in captivity until the total amount is completed. With hindsight, I say were ignorantly running away from our salvation," he added.

According to him, the IGP-IRT Port Harcourt Sector (Inspector General of Police intelligence response team, Port Harcourt Sector) immediately contacted their sophisticated IT unit in Abuja, and real-time tracking began.

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