Gunmen Kidnap Adamawa High Court Judge’s Wife

Gunmen suspected to be terrorists have reportedly kidnapped the wife of Adamawa State High Court judge, Zainab Abbas.

It was learnt that Mrs. Abass was abducted in early hours of Wednesday at Nyibango residence, a short distance away from the 23rd brigade of the Nigerian Army headquarters in Yola, the state capital.

According to reports, Abbas was abducted at the same area where some unknown gunmen had recently kidnapped a popular televangelist, Rev. Mike Ochigbo.

The Adamawa State Police Command confirmed Abbas’s abduction through its spokesperson, SP Suleiman Nguroje.

“The victim was kidnapped at her residence behind Royal Ambassadors Hotel in the Nyibango neighbourhood.

“The Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Babatola, deployed operatives of the command, drawn from the Crack Squad, Special Rapid Response Team (SRRT) and other tactical squads to carry out a tactical and intelligence-driven rescue operation on criminal hideouts and black spots to rescue the kidnapped wife of the High Court Judge, arrest the kidnappers and their collaborators that are bent to fomenting troubles in the state.

“Those deployed to rescue the victim will ensure the arrest of the culprits as a further manifestation of the command’s determination to prosecute offenders diligently.

“This deployment will surely assist in coordinating timely response to distress calls and to clamp down on those found committing crimes, as the command has deployed electronic devices to record pictorial evidences of those involved.

“The CP has equally directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations and Deployment to coordinate the designed rescue operation as all divisional police officers are to adopt a stop and Search exercise in their respective areas of responsibility, especially midnights to ensure total domination of the public space, prevent escape of criminals and possible arrest of trouble makers,” the spokesperson said.