Two victims of last Friday's attack on worshippers on the Akpamoba-Igbola prayer mountain in the Agbaja area of Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State have been rescued, the state Police Command has confirmed.
ASP William Aya, the command's spokesman, who confirmed the rescue of the victims, identified them as Pastors Adura Kayode and Kingsley Ebong of the City of Grace Prophetic Liberation Church.
The spokesman further explained that the rescued pastors had been reunited with their families, saying that security operatives are still combing the forest in the area to rescue more of the abducted worshippers.
The Chairman of Lokoja Local Government Council, Comrade Abdullahi Adamu, charged security operatives to sustain the search, rid the forest of all criminal elements, and restore sanity.
In a statement by his Special Adviser, Yusuf Bala, the chairman called on residents of the area to remain calm as security personnel are on the trail of the criminals.
The statement further explained that the worshippers were attacked by some armed men, suspected to be kidnappers, during a night vigil last Friday at Akpamoba-Igbola Mountain in the Agbaja area, saying that they whisked an unspecified number of them into the bush.
The rescue of the two pastors has brought the number of freed victims to three, including a woman, Mary Adams Gur, who regained her freedom on the night of the incident when men of the state vigilante services stormed the forest.
