A Police Inspector with the Federal Capital Territory Police Command has died after sustaining fatal injuries while repelling multiple attacks by kidnappers in Zuba axis of the FCT Abuja.
The gallant officer, Inspector Ambi John, sustained gunshot injuries and was immediately rushed to a hospital for medical attention but died in the process.
According to a statement issued on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yusuf Mariam, the deceased was attached to Operation Puff Adder.
It said men of the FCT Police Command, in the wee hours of Tuesday, had repelled multiple attacks by suspected kidnappers along Dankusa, Angwan-Zegele-Zuba axis following a distress call from the area.
It added a joint team of Police Operatives from the Command and Operation Puff Adder combat team, promptly responded to the distress call and engaged the heavily armed hoodlums in a fierce gun battle.
Though the number of kidnappers killed during the gun duel could not be ascertained, several police operatives were combing the area and patrolling the communities, the Command’s spokesperson said.
Dare-devil kidnappers have been terrorising settlements and launching ‘terrifying’ kidnapping attacks on residents, within the axis, recently.
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala Ciroma, after the arrest of some kidnappers in that axis last week, reassured residents of Zuba and its surrounding axis of the Police undeterred resolve to secure lives and property within the FCT.