Gunmen Abduct ABU Staff, Daughter in Samaru – Report

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Tragedy befell Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Samaru Zaria, Community yesterday when suspected Kidnappers abducted a middle-aged woman and her 13-year old daughter.

According to a report by Education Monitor, the kidnappers invaded Area BZ Staff quarters of the University around 11pm where they headed straight to the house where the occupant, Rahama, a nurse with the University’s Medical Centre lives with her three children and abducted her and the 13-year-old daughter.

As at the time of filing this report, the whereabouts of the abductees, as well as the motive of the attack, is not yet known.

This is the second time kidnappers were invading the University community and successfully doing away with their victims.

It would be recalled that at about 11:20pm on the night of Friday, February 7, 2020, unknown gunmen stormed the residence of a former Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Abdullahi Mustapha at the Jama’a area of Zaria and kidnapped his pregnant daughter, Maryam Abdullahi, 35, and a mother of two.

A neighbour reportedly gunned down one of the kidnappers, yet the rest managed to escape with Maryam to an unknown destination.

She was later released and returned to her family house on February 13, 2020. An unconfirmed report said a ransom was paid to secure her release.

ALSO READ: Neighbor Shoots kidnapper after Gunmen Abduct ex-ABU VC’s Family Member

Earlier in June this year, a lecturer with Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria Dr. Mohammad Bello Hassan was shot dead along Katsina-Zamfara road.

Dr. Mohammad Bello Hassan who was from the Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute for Agricultural Research, ABU, Zaria, was murdered by suspected armed bandits on his way back from Zamfara on an official engagement, 23 June 2020.


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