IGP Deploys Police Special Forces To Rescue Kidnapped Germans

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris has ordered the deployment of police special force to the Southern part of Kaduna State to rescue two German archeologists kidnapped at an excavation site.

The Nigerian Police spokesman, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Jimoh Moshood told journalists at a press conference on Thursday in Abuja that IGP has order a Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Operations to lead the team of policemen on a hunt to rescue the kidnapped Germans.

Moshood said the IGP deployed: “The Special Police Forces comprising the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU), the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) and the Police Mobile Force.”

“The Police Surveillance Helicopters and Special Investigation Team on kidnapping and terrorism cases under the Command of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Department of Operations to Janjala Village under Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State to search and rescue the two Germans unhurt and arrest the perpetrators,” he added.

The two Germans archaeologists were kidnapped on Wednesday while working in collaboration with the National Commission for Museum and Monuments on the relics of NOK Culture in Nigeria in an excavation site at Janjala area of Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State.

Moshood explained that the team is already on the ground working in synergy with the Kaduna State Police Command and the local indigenes of towns and surrounding villages where these German Archaeologists were kidnapped.

He said: “though the two Germans archaeologists have Police officers attached to them for their protection at the NOK Archaeology Research Project Centre they did not go with the Policemen to the excavation site where they were kidnapped. Two locals in the company of the Germans archaeologists were killed during the kidnap attack.”

He added that the Special Forces and Police Investigators deployed are in contact with the colleagues of the victims and have provided additional security for their safety.

He noted that in order to achieve prompt result, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department has also been mandated to coordinate the investigation aspect of the operations.


Moshood also said: “The Nigeria Police Force while assuring all Nigerians and foreign Nationals in the country of their safety, the Force wishes to implore them to always request and obtain Police escort to protect them any time they are embarking on research, mining and related endeavours outside the towns and cities across the country.”