Four children aged thirteen, fourteen, twenty-one and twenty-one years were rescued close to Urum, twenty-five kilometers away from their home in Achala village, Enugwu-Agidi in the early hours of Saturday, 16th December, 2023.
This followed a distress call by a woman on 15th December, 2023 to Police at Abagana via Police hotline that suspected herdsmen had abducted four children from a family at Achalla Village, Enugwu Agidi in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State.
A release by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga said that the caller, who is mother of the children disclosed that the family was watching Television at about ten o’clock in the night when the light suddenly went out.
According to her, the man of the house went out to find out what was amiss and the wife followed him, when they observed three gunmen suspected to be herdsmen and fled for dear lives.
She said that by the time they summoned courage to return to the house, they discovered that their four children who were already asleep had been abducted by the gunmen.
According to the release, immediately the Commissioner of Police, Mr Aderemi Adeoye received the report, he ordered immediate mobilisation of Police personnel and vigilante to go after the kidnappers with a view to rescuing the children.
It said the children have been reunited with their parents while the dragnet for the armed herdsmen is being extended to neighbouring communities.
The release added that the Commissioner of Police issued a stern warning to those engaged in kidnapping their fellow humans for money that when caught, they will be treated worse than armed robbers.
Meanwhile security has been beefed up in the area to forestall a re-occurrence.
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