The Police Command in Kaduna State has confirmed a failed kidnap attempt by gunmen on Wednesday night on the Paramount Ruler of Ninzo Chiefdom, Alhaji Umar Musa.
The chiefdom is in the state’s Sanga Local Government Area.
The spokesperson of the command, ASP Mansir Hassan, however, told the News Agency of Nigeria that “the whereabouts of the chief’s wife was still unknown.”
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Mansir said that security operatives have since been deployed to the forests around Sanga in search of the wife.
The Ninzo Development Association, in a statement signed by its President and Secretary, Prof. Moses Audi and Silas Anche, respectively, “condemned the planned kidnap of their traditional ruler that led to the disappearance of his wife.”
The statement however called for calm to allow the government to live up to its responsibility.
In May 2023, it was gathered that the invasion of the palace of the Emir of Kagarko, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, in Southern Kaduna, kidnapping nine of his children in the town.
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