Troops foil kidnappers’ roadblock in Benue, kill suspect, arrest two

Troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), person disrupted a suspected kidnappers’ roadblock successful Benue State, neutralising 1 fishy and arresting 2 others successful abstracted operations.

The Acting Media Information Officer of the JTF headquarters, Lt. Ahmad Zubairu Zubairu, disclosed this successful a connection issued to journalists.

According to the statement, troops acting connected credible quality connected August 19, 2026, mobilised to the Jortar-Atume axis, wherever a suspected bandit kingpin and his associates were reportedly operating an amerciable checkpoint.

The troops encountered the suspected criminals connected arrival, starring to a weapon conflict during which 1 of the suspects, identified by the nickname “Cool Nigga,” was neutralised.

The connection said different members of the radical fled the scene, abandoning a motorcycle that was subsequently recovered by the troops.

In a abstracted cognition the aforesaid day, troops deployed successful Logo Local Government Area arrested 2 suspected kidnappers astatine Gou Village pursuing credible intelligence.

The suspects were identified arsenic 44-year-old Terhile Iyo and 32-year-old Vershima Emmanuel.

The subject said the suspects reportedly confessed to attempting to kidnap Mrs Balame Nyikwagh, a nonmigratory of Gou Village.

Items recovered from them included 1 locally made pistol, 1 cartridge, 5 Tecno tor...