By Muhammad Bukar Gunmen at the early hours of Sunday abducted Juwairiyya Murtala, 17-years-old daughter of a member representing ...
By Muhammad Bukar
Gunmen at the early hours of Sunday abducted Juwairiyya
Murtala, 17-years-old daughter of a member representing Danbatta Constituency
in the Kano State House of Assembly, Murtala Musa Kore at his country home.
Juwairiyya Murtala, an SS II student of Government Girls
Secondary School, Jogana was reportedly seized in place of her father who
wasn’t at home at the time of the incident.
Multiple security sources claimed that armed men stormed the
legislator’s home in Kore village, Danbatta local government area of Kano at
around 2:00am to carry out the dastardly act.
The visibly disturbed legislator while addressing
journalists on the development said he was the target of the kidnapping gang
who out of frustration seized his daughter.
The lawmaker further revealed that “they told my wives and
children that they were there to kidnap me and were not ready to leave
empty-handed, and in fulfilment of their vow kidnapped my daughter instead of
me.”
Kore said “I was in Kano when I received a phone call from
my country home by 2:30am and was intimated that kidnappers have abducted my
daughter, Juwairiyya.
Giving a graphic picture of the incident, Kore explained,
“the abductors invaded my house and tied up my elder brother, Lawal Kore whom
they had mistaken for me when he told them that I wasn’t home they went inside
my family’s quarters to verify his claim.
However, the legislator said the kidnappers are yet to
contact him for ransom.
Speaking on the situation in a telephone conversation, DSP
Abdullahi Haruna failed to either confirm or deny the story, adding he was out
of Kano metropolis on an equally important engagement.
In his words “at the moment, we are at Falgore forest, and
I’m hearing for the first time, and as soon as we return to Kano, I will make my
enquiry and get back to you.”
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