Truck driver, motor boy rescued from kidnappers by Edo security outfit

The Edo State Security Corps, ESSC, has rescued a 37-year-old motortruck operator and his 25-year-old centrifugal lad from kidnappers successful the state.

DAILY POST reports that the Deputy Commander, Operations of the Corps, Richard Balogun, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday successful Benin City.

Balogun identified the operator and his centrifugal lad arsenic Sani Muhammed and Nazifi Rabiu, from Jigawa State.

He said the victims were kidnapped astatine astir 11pm connected March 30, 2026, on the Benin–Okene roadworthy adjacent an service checkpoint successful Auchi successful Etsako West Local Government Area.

He added that the victims were rescued connected April 5, 2026, astatine astir 6pm successful the Alimogiza Forest successful Anwain country of the Etsako West Local Government country by operatives of the Corps.

Balogun explained that the victims had disclosed that the kidnappers person already opened negotiations with their families, demanding a ransom of N60 cardinal earlier they were rescued.

He besides alleged that the suspected kidnappers said to beryllium astir 10 successful fig had killed 1 of their victims.

He, however, added that astir 7 different victims are inactive being held captive by the abductors.

Truck driver, centrifugal lad rescued from kidnappers by Edo information outfit