Police rescue two kidnapped victims in Edo

The Edo State Police Command has rescued 2 kidnapped victims namely Musibau Kehinde Tracy and Edewor John during a fierce weapon duel with the suspected abductors.

The Public Relations Officer of the Command, ASP Eno Ikoedem disclosed this connected Monday, April 6, 2026 successful a connection made disposable to newsmen successful Benin City

Ikoedem said the victims were abducted astir Izakagbo/Iwu assemblage successful Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the State.

According to her, “the Edo State Police Command wishes to pass the wide nationalist that pursuing the caller information concerns and reported kidnapping incidents astir Izakagbo/Iwu assemblage and its environs, the Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonika ordered an contiguous intensification of operational deployments and intelligence-driven policing crossed the affected axis.

“This strategical involution has yielded affirmative results. On 5th April, 2026, done a well-coordinated ambush cognition carried retired by operatives of the Command, suspected kidnappers were intercepted astatine Iyera, on the pipeline aft the Ovia River.

“This led to an speech of gunfire, during which 2 kidnapped victims, 1 Musibau Kehinde Tracy ‘F’, 24 years, and 1 Edewor John ‘M’, 39 years, were successfully rescued unhurt.

“Both victims are presently successful harmless custody and receiving indispensable attraction and their families are con...