Idris who hails from Babban-Tunga was whisked away in the early hours of Monday, according to the Secretary to the Government of Niger State (SSG), Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Matane.
Residents of Babban-Tunga, a community off Abuja/Kaduna highway in Niger State have narrated how the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Alhaji Muhammed Sanni Idris, was abducted.
According to Daily Trust, a younger brother of the victim, Salisu Idris said the kidnappers called him on phone twice around 10am on Monday, using the victim’s contact number, to confirm that he was in their custody.Speaking also, the commissioner’s first wife, said she was with him on Saturday before returning to Minna on Sunday evening.
She was about to return to Minna when she accepted to spare some time to speak with our reporter on the incident.
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