The inspector-general of police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, on Sunday, received the rescued 20 medical students, who were abducted in Benue State on their way to Enugu State for a conference.

The IGP, while receiving the students, said other seven kidnap victims were also rescued in the process of rescuing the medical students.

20 Medical Students Were Rescued, No Ransom Paid -- Police

He also said the leader of the kidnap gang was killed during the operations while two others were apprehended.

The IGP, while appreciating the National Security Adviser (NSA), the other security operatives, local vigilante groups; urged Nigerians to always have faith in the police whenever problems like this occur as no ransom was paid for the rescue of the victims.

The IGP, therefore, handed over the rescued students to the Universities of Maiduguri and Jos.

Over the weekend, the students and others rescued and were immediately moved to Abuja for proper medical attention.

LEADERSHIP reports that the abducted 20 students from the University of Maiduguri and University of Jos, who were abducted in Benue State last week Thursday, were rescued on Friday, April 23, 2024 .

The source also said the joint security operatives from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), the Department of State Services (DSS), and the military who participated in the rescue operations were mandated to move the rescued students to undisclosed hospital in Abuja where they would be properly taken care off.

They were rescued at Ajide Forest in Ukwonyo ward of Ado LGA of Benue State and the forest is a shared forest located between Ado and Okpokwu LGAs of Benue State.

Prior to this, the abductors of the medical students who were en route to Enugu State last Thursday had rejected the N20 million ransom allegedly raised by the Catholic community in Nigeria.

The president of the Community of Tiv Students at the University of Maiduguri, Prince Tihi Maxwell, whose two members were among the abducted students, had disclosed this in Maiduguri.