Gunmen abduct wife of Katsina deputy accountant general

The household of the Katsina state Deputy Accountant General, Sani Lawal Barkin- Kasua(BK), was on Thursday, thrown into confusion following the abduction of his wife, Hajiya Lubabatu by unknown gunmen.

Insiders said Lubabatu who returned from a lesser Hajj (Umrah)on Tuesday, was abducted on Wednesday night around 9.

It was learnt that the gunmen, numbering fifteen, gained entry into the GRA residence of the Deputy Accountant General, using a Peugeot 206 car, which the private guards mistook for one of his cars.

The sources added that after the gunmen had entered the compound, they manhandled those met in the house and demanded Lubabatu.

After finding her, they ordered her inside the car and then drove her out of the premises and reportedly out of Katsina.

The Deputy Accountant General was reportedly not in when the gunmen stormed the house.

Efforts to get his comments on the incident on Thursday were abortive as he was said not to be around.

Sympathisers who were mainly top civil servants were, however, seeing trooping to the house to console him on the incident.

The abductors were yet to make contact with the family at the time of putting this report together.

The spokesman for the Katsina police command, SP Gambo Isah could not be reached for comments while his telephone lines continued to ring out.