STF Rescues 6 kidnapped Fulani teenagers

The Special Task Force (STF), saddled with the responsibility of maintaining peace in Plateau and some parts of the neighbouring Bauchi state, said at the weekend that it rescued six Fulani teenagers kidnapped by a gang of hoodlums in Tafawa Balewa of southern part of Bauchi state.
The victims, three boys and three girls, are Adama Yunusa, Hajara Abdulrahman, Habiba Mamman, Yakubu Manga, Musa Adamu and Saleh Gwani.

Speaking with newsmen in Jos the Plateau state capital, the STF Commander, Major General Rogers Nicholas said “the kidnappers abandoned their captives in Zango forest after an exchange of fire arms with soldiers.”

He said the STF over powered the hoodlums because the task-force is equipped with more superior fire power.

However, the Commander Forward Observation Base (FOB), Tafawa Balewa, Col. Adeola Kolajaiye, who led the rescue operation team, narrated that the kidnappers on sighting the STF opened fire but eventually took to their heels when they could not withstand the counter fire from the rescue team.

Kolajaiye said the victims were rescued after two days without the payment of any ransom, adding that they kidnappers placed a ransom of N10 million.

Meanwhile, an eyewitness who is also one of the parents of the victim’s, Mallam Isa Saleh, narrated that the kidnappers came in their numbers at about 11pm
but could not tell how many they were because “we ran away at the sound of their entrance”, he said.

One of the victim’s said they were fed with roasted yam for the two days adding that the girls were not molested.