Gunmen Kidnap 12 Nigerian Senior Police Officer In The Restive North

Even as the Nigerian Army has sustained its fight against banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism in the Northern part of the country, the country’s police force was targeted as 12 of its senior personnel were on days ago abducted in the region.

The yet-to-be-identified gunmen kidnapped the police officers, all in the ranks of Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs), while on their way to Zamfara from the troubled Borno State.

According to BBC Hausa Service on Tuesday, one of the abductees called his wife and asked her to raise N1 million, noting that there would be trouble if she failed.

“He called me on Wednesday and told me that he was in the hands of the kidnappers.

“I can’t tell you I have any other information. We are in a state of frustration,” she was quoted as saying.