The Kwara State Police Command has confirmed the rescue of kidnapped Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr. Ahmed Yusuf.
Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Okasanmi Ajayi, in a statement, said Yusuf was currently undergoing medical examination and would be allowed to join his family as soon as he is confirmed fit by the police medical doctor.
Yusuf, who was serving at the Monitoring unit of the command was kidnapped last week while trying to enter his residence at Oloje area of Ilorin, the state capital.
Since then, men of the state police command have been working to rescue him from his abductors.
Ajayi said Yusuf was rescued about 0230hrs on Sunday at a bush border between Kwara and Oyo state.
According to him, the commissioner had dispatched the Command’s Tactical Teams, local Vigilante and hunters with the support of the Oyo State Amotekun squad to search for him and the efforts by the combined team yielded the expected result as the kidnappers escaped and abandoned the abducted ASP under severe pressure of being arrested.
“The moment they found out the teams had formed a ring around their location, the victim thereafter sauntered to where the police teams were waiting for him and was rescued,” he explained.
He said efforts were ongoing to get the abductors arrested for prosecution.
