Retired Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Sikiru Smith, has regained freedom from his kidnappers, five days after he was abducted in Lagos.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu confirmed that Smith had been reunited with his family.
Police rescued Smith early Saturday morning from the waterside at Langbasa where his kidnappers abandoned him around 4 am, the Lagos State Command confirmed.
But in faraway Kogi State, ex-Provost Chief Oshadumo, who was abducted about two weeks ago, was not so lucky as he died in a crossfire between kidnappers and vigilantes in a failed rescue attempt.
Smith, a former Chief of Logistics of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) was abducted by hooded gunmen who took him to an unknown destination.
His abduction had elicited a flurry of activities within the security circles in Nigeria, with the Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Usman deploying detachments of marine police operatives and special squads from Abuja to assist the Lagos Command.
According to the IG, the security operatives had been on the trail of the culprits but were more concerned about the safe return of the former military chief.
Former Kogi Provost Oshadumo was kidnapped two Sundays ago as armed men stormed the ECWA church in Okedayo-Kabba, Kogi State, and killed one person and wounded the chief’s wife and other worshippers.
The vigilante group that attempted to rescue him had been on the trail of the gunmen to a forest around Ogori community in Kogi Central Senatorial district and engaged them in a shootout.
It was in that process that the Chief was felled by stray bullets.
