Moshood stated in his stateement, «The IGP Intelligence Response Team, Police Special Forces, Police Airwing and other detachments of the Force stormed the hideout of the suspected kidnappers who
kidnapped two (2) South African Nationals, Mr. Thomas Arnold Pearce and Mr. Hendrik Gideon Smith on 23rd January, 2018
at Maidoro Village, Kaduna State; mounted pressure simultaneously from the air and on the ground led to the release of the two (2) South African Nationals unhurt in the
early hours of today, 27th January, 2018.
On the night of the
kidnapping, two of the Potts children were away
at university while their other two daughters were home with their mother, a teacher, who had arrived home about an
hour earlier from a meeting.