{"id":4019,"date":"2023-11-26T08:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T08:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/troops-rescue-six-kidnap-victims-in-kebbi\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T08:02:43","slug":"troops-rescue-six-kidnap-victims-in-kebbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/troops-rescue-six-kidnap-victims-in-kebbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops rescue six kidnap victims in Kebbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>No fewer than six hostages kidnapped by armed bandits have been rescued by troops of the Nigerian Army and local vigilantes in a forest in Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State.<\/p>\n<p>Special Adviser to Governor Nasir Idris, Malam Yahaya Sarki made this known in a press statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the all-male abductees were rescued in good condition had been reunited with their various families.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the victims were earlier declared missing by their family members who were ignorant of the kidnap incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTroops of 1 Battalion, Dukku Barracks, Birinin Kebbi in conjunction with vigilantes raided Kogon Damisa Hill around Saminaka in Shanga Local Government Area, a border town between Kebbi and Niger on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team dislodged a large number of bandits and rescued six kidnap victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victims had earlier been reported as missing, whereas they had been abducted a long time ago,\u2019\u2019 he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s aide commended the gallant troops and other security agencies, reiterating the government\u2019s unwavering commitment to supporting security agencies in the state. (NAN)<\/p>\n<p>Troops rescue six kidnap victims in Kebbi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than six hostages kidnapped by armed bandits have been rescued by troops of the Nigerian Army and local&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,15,1314],"tags":[1497,180,1318],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kebbi","category-news","category-troops","tag-kebbi","tag-news","tag-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}