Suspected terrorists have abducted four persons consisting a man, woman and two children, in Kolo village, in the Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

PUNCH Metro gathered that following the victims’ abduction, the suspects demanded N10m ransom and rejected the old naira notes.

An indigene in the area, Mohammed Ibrahim, said the bandits later reduced the ransom to N5m, adding that people in the village had been trying to raise the money to secure the safe release of the victims.

“As we were trying to gather the money demanded by the terrorists, they sent another message this morning that they would not collect old naira notes.



“They said they would keep the abducted persons in their camps until the release of the new naira notes in December,” Ibrahim said.

Calls made to the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mohammed Shehu, and the state Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Dosara, rang out.

Text messages sent to their mobile numbers were yet to be responded to as of the time of filing this report.


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In another development on Tuesday, gunmen kidnapped a politician of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Nduka Anyanwu, in Imo State.

PUNCH Metro gathered that Anyanwu, who is one of the party’s House of Assembly candidates, was campaigning with his supporters when the gunmen invaded the rally and whisked him away.

Narrating how the abduction happened, a source said, “The gunmen stopped him (Anyanwu) on the way as he was going to finalise arrangements for his polling agents. We are yet to ascertain where they took him to and the kidnappers are yet to make any contact.”

Contacted, the APGA Chairman in the state, John Iwuala, who confirmed the kidnap, said the politician had been freed.

Iwuala said, “Yes, our candidate was kidnapped early this morning, but just as we were about to report it officially, we heard that the kidnappers had released him. The kidnappers collected all he had with him as at the time he was kidnapped.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mike Abattam, said he was yet to be informed about the incident.


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Lol, first class citizens want to be the first to spend new money, they are doing well.

All these kidnappings happening before the oil exploration in the north has fully commenced makes one wonder how safe the workers and infrastructures will be. Time will tell sha.

F00lish people with cow mentality

Lol..and naira note was changed to defeat such... They are already accumulating more via same kidnapping

Too bad


Atiku is coming

midehi2:
F00lish people with cow mentality

Really? What will they do with the old naira notes when they may not have time to lodge it in the bank.

The cows are bit smart!!!

saintopus:


Really? What will they do with the old naira notes when they may not have time to lodge it in the bank.

The cows are bit smart!!!

Keep kidnapping, doom is near

Once the New President takes over

the Mercenaries that will finish these Bandits will be imported From

South Africa and Eastern Europe

Are these kidnapping news up north always real?

Fake news

Igbo:
Fake news

Really?

Even with PunchNG source?

This country is very funny, can you imagine

Thund.. er fire whoever wants to vote APC

Kaycee9242:
This country is very funny, can you imagine

Na so we see yam