Gunmen Abduct Kogi State Miyetti Allah Chairman.
Idris Ahmed, Lokoja.
The Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Kogi State, Alhaji Wakili Damina, has allegedly been abducted by armed men in military camouflage.
The state Secretary of Miyetti Allah, Adamu Abubakar, told newsmen in Lokoja on Tuesday that Damina was kidnapped on April 30 by some armed men at Chikara village in Kogi local government area of Kogi state, some few kilometers to Abuja.
According to eye witnesses, one of whom is the younger brother of Damina, said the abductors, numbering about eight, came in a white bus at about 12 noon and forcefully took away the Chairman from his house
Abubakar further disclosed that since the information reached him, all efforts to get Damina on his phone were not successful as CJ number was switched off.
“Since then, his lines are not reachable and all efforts to know his whereabouts proved abortive,” he said.
Abubakar said that he immediately notified the state Commissioner of police and the state government through the State Security Adviser, Commodore Jerry Omodara (retd) of the development, adding that the state government .
The Secretary said that officials and some members of the association visited the Nigeria Police Force headquarters, Abuja, to know if Damina was in their custody but could not be found there, and therefore a search party has to be raised by MACBAN which had visited other places, including abattoirs in and around Abuja to no avail.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ede Ayuba, when contacted, said that the police is yet to locate the whereabouts of the Chairman, explaining that immediately he was informed of the incident, he called Damina’s phone severally but there was no response.
Ayuba said efforts to get detailed information about the incident from the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the area where the incident occurred was unsuccessful as the matter was not officially reported to him.
