RismadarVoice Reporters
August 28, 2026
Several members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) were abducted on Wednesday along the Aloma-Egane Expressway in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State, with the police confirming the rescue of 11 victims.
The corps members were reportedly travelling from the NYSC orientation camp in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State when armed men attacked the vehicles conveying them.
In a statement made available on Friday, spokesperson for the Kogi State Police Command, Saliu Afusat, said security operatives immediately launched a rescue operation after receiving a distress call.
According to her, the operation resulted in the rescue of 11 abducted persons, including the drivers of the two buses involved in the incident.
She said preliminary debriefing indicated that most of the rescued victims were NYSC members travelling from Bayelsa State to Abuja.
Afusat said the attack occurred at about 4:40 p.m. around Ogene Zaria, near the Ogene Zaria/Onicha-Igo Junction, when armed hoodlums emerged from the bush, blocked two buses travelling in opposite directions and abducted some of the passengers.
“Upon receipt of the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer, Ofu, led a joint security team to the scene, where two abandoned vehicles, a Peace Mass Transit white Hummer bus and a yellow 18-seater bus, were recovered,” she said.
She added that security operatives subsequently commenced a coordinated bush-combing and rescue operation, leading to the recovery of the 11 victims.
The rescued persons were debriefed and, after the necessary procedures, were allowed to continue their journey, the police said.
The command did not disclose the exact number of people abducted during the attack, while efforts to determine whether any NYSC members remained in captivity continued.
Afusat said the police and other security agencies had deployed “every available operational and intelligence resource” to locate and rescue any remaining victims and apprehend the perpetrators.
