An Assistant Commissioner of police, ACP Emmanuel, serving in Gusau, Zamfara, has been abducted while travelling with members of his family along the Birnin-Gwari–Funtua road on Wednesday.
Highlights (Report by Dail Trust):
- He and three members of his family were said to be travelling in a Hi-lux van when they ran into the gunmen who forced their vehicle to stop and whisked them away in another vehicle.
- Another police officer was also abducted with three others while travelling in a Sharon bus to Birnin Gwari on Wednesday.
- A source said immediately the police patrolling the route got the information that some persons travelling in a Sharon bus had been abducted they raised an alarm as one of them had during a stopover at a police post identified himself as their colleague and inquired about one of them who he said is his friend but was told had been transferred to Maiduguri.
