By Ifeanyi Nwannah Mr. Sanusi Halilu Kaura, a lecturer at Abdu Gusau Polytechnic in Zamfara State, who doubled as the Students’ Affa...
By Ifeanyi Nwannah
Mr. Sanusi Halilu Kaura, a lecturer at Abdu Gusau
Polytechnic in Zamfara State, who doubled as the Students’ Affairs Officer of
the institution, has been killed by his abductors.
He was killed after the payment of five million naira ransom
for his freedom.
DAILY POST gathered that Kaura was killed after five weeks
of his abduction.
According to a source close to the family, the five million
naira ransom was paid to the bandits on Tuesday in a bush near some villages
along Kaduna-Zaria road, in Kaduna State.
The source further stated that the bandits confirmed his
death less than twenty-four hours after the payment of the ransom, saying that
it was an indication that he was killed long ago even when negotiations for his
release were on.
The lecturer, an indigene of Kaura Namoda Local Government
Area of Zamfara State, was abducted alongside others on his way to Abuja for
NYSC Mobilisation of the Polytechnic Students.
They were abducted along the troubled Kaduna-Abuja highway
and was taken to an unknown destination
This revelation came hours after armed bandits kidnapped the
wife of a military officer and six others at the new Millennium city in Chikun
Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
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