Security operatives under the Kaduna Police Command have rescued two kidnapped victims in the State, as they recovered 283 suspected rustled cows and 20 sheep.

The operatives also arrested five suspects during the operation.

Police Spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, in a statement, on Sunday, “on 31st October 2024, Acting on credible intelligence received, the Officer in Charge of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, SP Sani Ibrahim Zuntu led a team of operatives to a remote area of Gora Village. “

According to him, “the team located and arrested five suspects and recovered two hundred and eighty-three (283) cattle and twenty (20) sheep suspected to be rustled.”

The arrested suspects, he said, are “Danjuma Alhaji Nguna, 25 years, Saleh Shehu, 35 years, Isiya Abdullahi, 35 years, Abubakar Isiya, 13 years and Aminu Abdullahi a.k.a. “Kano,” 13 years.”

“All the suspects will be charged to court after the completion of preliminary investigations. In the same vein, On 31st October 2024, at about 17:00 hours, following an intelligence report received by the Ikara Division of a suspicious bandits activity in a remote bush area near Kauyen Magaji Auchan village.”

Hassan explained that “acting promptly on the information, a patrol team from Ikara division was dispatched to the scene, where the team engaged the bandits in a gunfight that forced them to scamper into the bush.

“As a result of the operation two victims were rescued namely, Ibrahim Abdullahi, and Hafsat Yusuf. The victims were immediately transported to a nearby hospital for a thorough medical examination and after that, they were reunited with their families.”

Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, Ibrahim Abdullahi, assured the public that the command is committed to addressing the persistent issues of cattle rustling and banditry.