Bandits have kidnapped the Commissioner for Information in Niger
State, Mohammed Idris.
This was confirmed by the state government on Monday in a statement
through its Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel-Berje.
The Commissioner was said to have been kidnaped by bandits at about
one o’clock in the early hours of today from his home at Baban Tunga
village in Tafa local government of the State.
Security agencies are however already on the trail of the bandits, the
government’s statement added.
Kidnappings have been on the increase in the northwest and central
states of Nigeria where heavily armed criminal gangs operate with
foreign workers being occasional targets for ransom abduction.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Aminu Bobi was on
Saturday kidnapped in Mariga Local Government Area of the state.
Aminu Bobi who is the Zone C chairman of the ruling party in the state
was kidnapped on his farm.
