Abuja Residents, Motorists Prevent Kidnap Attempt

By PHC Telegraph

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Luck has run out on a gang of ‘one chance’ operators in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja who in the early hours of Saturday 17 February, 2024, attempted to snatch a victim.

They are cooling their heels at a police station in the city after they were prevented from fleeing the scene by citizens.

The kidnappers, according to reports reaching our news desk, were immobilized by residents and motorists when they struck within the vicinity of a school.

The name of the educational institution around the point where the criminals attempted this morning to kidnap an unsuspecting Nigerian has been given as Tophill School.

Tophill School is located along Accra Street in the Wuse area, precisely in Zone 5.

We have learnt that the one chance operators collided with a military vehicle while trying to escape.

The damaged vehicle belonged to a one-star General whose name is yet to be disclosed.

After motorists who witnessed what was going on used their personal vehicles to prevent the gate-away car owned by the criminals from having access to the road, they tried desperately to use the pedestrian walkway as an escape route.

It was while attempting to get back unto the road that they ramped into the military vehicle belonging to the Army General.

Our sources say they hopped out of the severely damaged vehicle in which they were getting away and attempted to make it to safety on foot before they were caught while trying to scale a fence.

A video showing residents in Wuse Zone 5 chasing the criminals have since go viral.