After a harrowing three weeks in captivity, the 6-year-old son of Bayelsa State Commissioner for Water Resources, Nengi Talbot Tubonah, has been successfully rescued.
The boy was abducted on December 22 by four gunmen who forcefully entered the commissioner’s residence at the New Commissioners’ Quarters in Yenagoa, demanding money. When the commissioner insisted he had no money, the gunmen seized the boy and took him to an undisclosed location.
Operatives of Puff Adder, attached to the Bayelsa Police Command, rescued the boy from the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, weeks after his abduction.
Upon the rescued victim’s arrival at the command’s headquarters in Yenagoa, the Commissioner of Police, Uche Anozia, commended the police’s efforts in tracking down the kidnappers with high levels of intelligence and professionalism to ensure the boy’s safe return.
Anozia disclosed that the kidnappers constantly moved the victim from one creek to another before the successful rescue operation took place, without succumbing to the ransom demands.
The command has also paraded the suspected kidnappers responsible for the ordeal.