The Acting- Inspector General of
Police, Suleiman Abba has ordered the withdrawal of security aides
attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker.
Announcing the removal, Police
Spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu, a Commissioner of Police said: “In view of
the recent defection by the Right Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the Speaker
of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, from the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).”
“Having regard to the clear
provision of section 68(1) (g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria as amended, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has redeployed its
personnel attached to his office.
Kidnapped German
Ogun state police spokesman Abimbola
Oyeyemi said the hostage was “rescued” on Thursday, but the security
services have previously claimed successful rescue operations even when
ransoms were paid.
The company the kidnapped man works
for, construction firm Julius Berger, provided no details on the release but
said that the employee was kidnapped on October 24th in an attack which
left another German national dead.
“Julius Berger Nigeria Plc is
pleased to officially announce the release of the company’s member of
staff, who was abducted in Ogun State,” a statement from the firm said.
“The company would like to thank the
all those who assisted in achieving a swift and safe release, especially
government authorities and security services.”
Four gunmen emerged from the bush
and opened fire on two vehicles in which the two men were travelling.
The employee who died, a
sub-contractor, died in hospital from a bullet wound while two other staff
members were hurt.
Julius Berger confirmed that the
group was moving in separate vehicles without security escort to a quarry
in Ogun state.
Foreign companies, especially oil
majors and large construction firms,typically require expatriate staff to
travel with police escort because of the
high threat of kidnapping in Nigeria.
high threat of kidnapping in Nigeria.
Abductions targeting foreigners are
common throughout the southern part of the country.
Hostages are often released
following a payment, especially in the oil-producing Niger Delta region,
which has seen waves of similar attacks.
The security services and the
companies involved rarely discuss details of ransom payments and there was
no mention in Thursday’s statement that money had exchanged
hands.
The shooting was “an isolated
criminal incident” which did not affect its operations elsewhere in the
country, the firm said last week.
Julius Berger has operated in
Nigeria since 1965 and has more 600 employees in the country, according to
the company’s website. Many of its staff are Nigerian nationals.
Foreigners have also been abducted
in the north of Africa’s most populous country in attacks seen as linked
to Boko Haram’s Islamist uprising.
A German national was kidnapped in
July in northeastern Adamawa state, one of the areas under a state of
emergency because of Boko Haram attacks. His whereabouts and condition
remain unknown.
One of their most notorious
abductions involved a German national in the northern city of Kano in
January 2012.
Edgar Fritz Raupach, an engineer,
was kidnapped on the outskirts of the city days after one of the deadliest
ever raids by Boko Haram, a coordinated gun attack in Kano that killed
more than 185 people.
Raupach died there in May of that
year, apparently during a sweep by the security services on a Boko Haram
safe house.
Security sources at the time said
they had no idea that Raupach was being held in the house when they
stormed it.
(TheLocal.de)
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