The remaining Joint Admissions and Matriculation (JAMB) candidates kidnapped whereas on their method to write their examination in Benue State have been rescued.
It was gathered that the candidates alongside different passengers who had been on the Benue Hyperlinks business bus travelling alongside Otukpo-Makurdi street had been rescued by a joint workforce of safety operatives.
Ifeanyi Emenari, the Benue State Commissioner of Police on Sunday stated 13 passengers had been rescued from their abductors and could be taken to Makurdi, Benue’s capital metropolis.
”Sure we’re planning a information convention this morning after they arrive in Makurdi. Good morning please,” Emenari confirmed their rescue.
Recall that the state-owned car was intercepted by some yet-to-be-identified armed males alongside the Otukpo-Makurdi Street on Wednesday evening.
Sources aware about the incident stated the bus was principally crammed with candidates travelling to Otukpo for his or her UTME examination, often carried out by JAMB.
Whereas JAMB had earlier, in an announcement denied that the passengers had been candidates slated to take a seat for its examination, the police additionally famous that it was doable that the travellers had been on the street exterior the accredited travelling time.