Wife, son of Atiku’s security aide, lawmaker’s brother kidnapped

 

 The insecurity in the country continued yesterday as suspected kidnappers abducted wife and son of a security detail attached to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in Yolde Pate, a suburb of Yola, Adamawa State.

Sources said the incident took place in the early hours of yesterday after the target reportedly arrived town with the former Vice President last weekend.

“The kidnappers believed that the police personnel, being so close to Atiku, would have money, so they went for him but took his wife and son when they did not find him,” a source said.

A source told Vanguard that the kidnappers were yet to make any demand for ransom.

It was also learned yesterday that a brother to one of  Adamawa State’s lawmakers was also abducted about the same time in the state.

Local sources said the elder brother of the state Majority Leader, Hammantukur Yetisuri, was kidnapped in his home at Jada Mbulo by gunmen who demanded N50 million as ransom.

The sources said the gunmen got to the community around 2am, shooting into the air to deter helpers before breaking into the house of the lawmaker’s brother.

They went away with the man, shouting that they would not return the man unless the family paid N50 million,” a source said.

The Public Relations Officer of the Adamawa State Police Command, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the two abductions but did not give further details.

He assured that the Police would do everything to free the abducted people and bring the gunmen to book.