Bandits kidnapped the Zamfara speaker's father, step mother and five other relatives in their village on August 4 and demanded...
reported how the elder Mr Magarya was kidnapped alongside his wife and five others in Magarya village on August 4.
The other kidnapped victims include the speaker’s step mother, two uncles and three other relatives during the attack.A top aide of the speaker, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak with journalists on the development, said the bandits reached out for ransom a day after the abductions.
According to the source, a former commissioner, who is also from Zurmi local government, has been leading the negotiation with the bandits. He said other government officials and friends of the speaker are also involved. “It was a deliberate plan to extort money from the speaker,” said the source, who said he has been involved in the negotiation from the beginning. “Though they didn’t speak with the speaker directly, they started the negotiation by asking for N500 million. But we don’t have such amount, so our people continued discussing with them .”
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