Gunmen Kidnap Four in Niger Community

Laleye Dipo in Minna

Gunmen in the early hours of Thursday kidnapped four people from Kwamba area in Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State.

The incident is the second within one week in the area.

THISDAY learnt that those kidnapped were a customs officer, his wife, a woman Assistant Inspector of Police and another woman.

It was gathered that the gunmen in their numbers first went to the house of the customs officer where they picked him up and his wife and made away with some valuable items from the building.

From the customs officer’s residence, it was reliably learnt that, the gunmen went to the house of the female Assistant Inspector of Police where she was abducted.

It was not immediately known how the fourth victim was kidnapped.

Until the time of filing this report, no contact has been made with the relations of those concerned by their abductors.

When contacted, the Niger State Commissioner of Police, Mr Monday Bala Kuyars, confirmed the story, saying: “I know four people were kidnapped.”

Asked for the identities of the victims, Kuyars said he has no information that those abducted are a police woman and customs official, adding that: “All I know is that four people were kidnapped.”

A week ago, it was gathered that a similar operation took place in the same Kwamba area of Suleja where many people were abducted.

There has been no confirmation of that last incident.