Police Begin Manhunt for Gunmen Who Invaded University of Abuja

• CP reassures residents

Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command Tuesday launched a manhunt for the kidnappers of a lecturer at the University of Abuja, Professor Bassey Udom, two members of his family and three other staff of the university Tuesday morning.
The bandits, had, in a daring morning raid, stormed the staff quarters of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) and abducted the academic, his son and daughter and three other members of the university community.
A statement by the FCT Police Command said the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, CP Babaji Sunday, had dispatched additional tactical and conventional policing resources to the university’s main and satellite campuses as well as the staff quarters and other affiliate formations of the university, to fortify security, improve public safety and protect citizens in and around the university community.
“The CP gave the order following report that some yet to be identified armed criminals invaded the UNIABUJA Staff Quarters located at the Giri area of the FCT in the early hours of November 2, 2021”, it said
The statement signed by Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh, said a combined team of the police and personnel of the Nigerian Army 176 Guards Battalion were swiftly mobilised to the area to protect the citizens. “Preliminary investigations, however, revealed that six persons were allegedly abducted and taken into the forest by the criminals on sighting the security operatives”, it said.
The police chief, while calling for calm, further noted that the security forces were already working with the locals in the area toward rescuing the victims.
He assured that the perpetrators would be arrested and brought to book.
“On this note, the command pledges its resolve to ensure lives and properties of residents within the FCT are protected and urge them to report all suspicious movements, emergency or distress, through these numbers: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653 and 08028940883”, it said.