Imo: Police deploy operatives to rescue abducted FUTO student

The Imo State Police Command has commenced coordinated hunt and rescue operations pursuing the reported abduction of a 17-year-old pupil of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO, Miss Mary Ezinwayi Uzoma.

The 100 level microbiology pupil was reportedly kidnapped on the FUTO/Ihiagwa Road successful Owerri West LGA.

The Command said it had, successful synergy with section vigilantes, promptly mobilized to the scene, wherever adjoining bushes and surrounding areas were instantly subjected to intensive hunt operations arsenic portion of ongoing efforts to find the victim.

Police spokesperson, Henry Okoye, successful a connection connected Tuesday, said the State Police Commissioner, CP Audu Garba Bosso, has directed the Anti-Kidnapping Unit to instrumentality implicit the lawsuit and prolong intelligence-led operations successful synergy with different information agencies.

“The directive are parts of proactive measures aimed astatine ensuring the harmless rescue of the unfortunate and the swift apprehension of the perpetrators,” the connection said.

Pkoye added that pursuing the development, the CP has reinforced information deployment crossed the FUTO axis and adjoining communities, with sustained patrols, surveillance and visibility policing already ongoing.

He assured students, schoolhouse authorities and residents of the authorities of the...