The abduction of six Assistant Superintendents of Police in Katsina State for over one week as their kidnappers are demanding for N100m ransom for their release.
Our correspondent gathered that the ASPs were among the nine who were just promoted to their current rank. They were deployed to the Mobile Police Squadron 6, Maiduguri, Borno State.
Reports had nit on Wednesday that the ASPs were demobilized from the riot unit and eight of them were on their way to the Zamfara State Police Command on transfer when they were attacked in Dodondaji area of Katsina State and taken into their den.
An anonymous police officer explained that the nine ASPs were planning to go to Zamfara State together but one of them changed his mind at the last minute while the others embarked on the trip in a commercial bus. On getting to Kano , the driver was said to have asked them to join another vehicle as his bus had developed a fault. So the eight joined another vehicle and on their way around Dongodaji in Katsina the bandits accosted and kidnapped them. While been taken away, two of the escaped and the one of them was shot in the leg though he survived the shooting. He found himself at a village and the villagers took him to a police station and was taken to hospital. The other six officers are still with the bandits who are demanding N100m ransom.
A senior police officer said the commander, Mopol6, could not account for the men when asked about the abduction, adding that he referred inquiries on the missing men to the Zamfara State Police Command.
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