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Crime & Punishment of Saturday, 9 January 2021

Source: thenationonlineng.net

Police confirm abduction of six family members in Zamfara

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The Zamfara State Police Command on Friday confirmed the abduction of six children of one Alhaji Sani Gyare and one other in Kadauri village, Maru Local Government Area of the state.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Shehu Mohammed, said the command received information on the abduction of seven children, six of whom are children of Alhaji Gyare and the seventh, a female picked from a neighbouring house all in Kadauri Village in Jabaka District of Maru LGA.

“The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Abutu Yaro has deployed a combined team of CTU and Police Mobile Force who are currently on the trail of the suspects.

“The CP, who said that peace had been restored in the area, vowed to rescue the victims soonest.

“He charged the local communities to continue to give useful information to law enforcement agents, especially the Police, in order to bring the criminals to book,” Muhammed said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the suspected hoodlums, in their large numbers, invaded the village in the early hours of yesterday to carry out the act.

Speaking to newsmen, father of the six victims, said he suspected the abductors came for him but missed him and took away his children instead.

“I was informed that when they got to the village, they went straight to my house and when they discovered l was not home they went away with my children and the daughter of one of my close friends and neighbour, Alhaji Sani Yellow,” he said.