The police in Enugu State, South-east Nigeria, have paraded two people for alleged abduction of travellers along Ugwogo Nike-Opi-Nsukka Road in the state.
They were paraded at the Police Headquarters in Enugu, on Tuesday, alongside 13 others who were arrested for allegedly committing various offences.
The police spokesperson in Enugu State, Daniel Ndukwe, who addressed reporters during the parade on behalf of the State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, said a female victim escaped from the suspected kidnappers.
Mr Ndukwe, a deputy superintendent of police, gave the names of the arrested suspected kidnappers as Sani Usman, 25, and Landi Usman, 30.
The suspects hail from Sokoto State in North-west Nigeria.
The police spokesperson said the victims were rescued from kidnappers in a forest after a shoot-out with the officers at Aisha-Ette, a community in Igbo-Eze North Council Area of the state.
“The kidnappers, most of whom escaped with varying degrees of gunshot wounds, abandoned the victims due to the superior firepower of the operatives,” he said.
