The Rivers State Police Command has said that five students of the Rivers State University (RSU), Emohua Campus, abducted in the early hours of December 2, 2025, have been rescued.
Grace Iringe-Koko, Superintendent of Police and Public Relations Officer, Rivers State Police Command, in a statement on Thursday December 4, 2025, “on 04/12/2025 at about 0100hrs, the five abducted victims — Prince London ‘M’, Azubuike Kelechukwu ‘M’, Elizabeth Aniete ‘F’, Onyebuchi Precious ‘M’, and London Sampson ‘M’ who were abducted by yet-to-be-identified cultists from their isolated residences, have been successfully rescued unhurt.”
She said, “The rescue operation was conducted at Rumudogo 2 Community in Emuoha Local Government Area of Rivers State by the command’s Tactical Teams, in collaboration with other sister security agencies and with the support of the community.
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“The rescued victims have been taken to the hospital for medical examination. Intensive efforts are ongoing to track down and arrest the fleeing cultists/abductors,” she said.
Iringe-Koko said Olugbenga Adepoju, state Commissioner of Police, has warned that he will not rest until all those responsible are arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law.
“He also urges continued collaboration from sister security agencies, the community, and the general public, while assuring residents to go about their lawful businesses without fear because their safety is our priority,” she said.
Tombari Dumka-kote, Chairman, Rivers Indigenous NGOs and Civil Society Network and coordinator of Rivers Response Team on Violence Against Women and Children, said the security architecture needs to be beefed up to protect students from a repeat of such incident.
He said, “We need to do more than what we are doing now. What this implies is that the institutions themselves, it is time the internal security network of these institutions are reviewed to become more reliable.
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“We should begin to have CCTV cameras that can deal with footages of what has actually happened. We should be able to have internal security mechanisms that can respond speedily within the campuses and not rely on the fact that there is some kind of police station or military checkpoint somewhere,” he said.
Dumka-kote frowned at the fact that, “Beyond the (Emohua) campus, there are security points which are supposed to be checkpoints on the road. Checkpoints where there are police officers, military men who are collecting money from drivers. Yet, there was no interception. Nothing. They carried these children away successfully.”
He described the abduction as a failure of the security set-up in the area, adding that “it is sad that there was no military or police intelligence. Because if there was such, and it was utilized, before these strikes happen, the information would have been gotten by relevant security agencies.”
