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By Maiharaji Altine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bandits have on Saturday kidnapped the District Head of Wuya town in Anka\nLocal Government Area of Zamfara state, Alhaji Umar, and his son, Manir Umar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also kidnapped was the Chief Imam of the town, Malam Murtala, who was\nleading the prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An eye witness, Alhaji Muhammadu Biyu said the monarch, his son and the Imam\nwere kidnapped at gunpoint in a mosque during afternoon prayers by a group of\nbandits who went to the town on motorcycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, the bandits entered into the mosque when the people were\nobserving the afternoon congregational prayers and whisked the District Head,\nhis son and the Chief Imam of the mosque away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muhammadu explained that the bandits shot into the air indiscriminately so\nas to scare the people of the town and later moved to the forest with their\nvictims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He further explained that the people of the town later pursued the bandits\nin a bid to rescue the three kidnapped persons where the bandits again opened\nfire and injured many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He expressed disgust over the abduction of the district head and the two\npersons by the bandits, lamenting that, \u201d The bandits who claimed to have\nrepented have been accommodated and accepted by the people of Wuya town only\nfor them to now break the peace accord\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Muhammadu, the district head had been very kind and generous\nto the repentant bandits and was even being accused by some people of the town\nas being part of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe has been very kind and helpful to the repentant bandits and even\nallowed them to be mingling with the people of his district, where many people\nthought that he was part of them. Now they have abducted him,\u201d Muhammadu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Confirming the incident in a telephone conversation, the Emir of Anka,\nAlhaji Attahiru Mohammed Ahmed, directed our reporter to talk to the local\ngovernment chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Soja Anka for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frantic efforts were made to talk to the chairman on the telephone were not\nsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to newsmen on the issue, the state\u2019s Commissioner in charge of\nSecurity and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, said, the state government\nhad received the information and had since mobilized both the police and\nmilitary to go after the culprits and rescue the kidnapped victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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