After enduring three weeks in captivity, the 6-year-old son of Bayelsa State’s Commissioner for Water Resources, Nengi Talbot Tubonah, has been successfully rescued.
The boy was taken on December 22 by a group of four gunmen who invaded the commissioner’s residence at the New Commissioners’ Quarters in Yenagoa. Upon entering Talbot’s home at the quarters located in Opolo, the gunmen demanded money from the commissioner. When he asserted that he had no money, they proceeded to kidnap his son and took him to an undisclosed location.
Operatives of Puff Adder, attached to the Bayelsa Police Command, were responsible for rescuing the boy from the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area weeks after his abduction.
Upon the boy’s rescue, the Commissioner of Police, Uche Anozia, welcomed the victim at the command’s headquarters in Yenagoa. He credited the successful rescue to the police’s diligent efforts in pursuing the kidnappers. Anozia also emphasized that the police’s intelligence and professionalism were instrumental in ensuring the boy’s safe release.
Anozia disclosed that the kidnappers frequently relocated the victim from one creek to another before he was eventually rescued, and no ransom was paid.
The suspected kidnappers involved in the crime have been apprehended and presented by the command.