Metro/Crime
JUST IN: Gunmen kidnap Nigerian policeman
A mobile police officer tasked with fighting kidnappings in Adamawa State has been kidnapped.
Gunmen kidnapped the mobile police officer attached to Operation Farauta, a special task force working to combat kidnappings in Adamawa state.
Sources said yesterday that the policeman, who resides in Mubi in northern Adamawa, was deployed to the Mayo-Belwa local government area as part of the special unit tasked with combating alleged kidnappings. became endemic around Mayo-Belwa.
The kidnapping of MOPOL, sources say, could be the result of mistaken identity, as it is clearly the wrong target.
A source said the armed men who entered Mayo-Belwa around 7:00 p.m. Sunday in a convoy of motorcycles were after a rich man called Idi Bage.
The man the gunmen were looking for owned a mansion next to the Mayo-Belwa-Jalingo highway.
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