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A first class traditional ruler in Kogi State, Alhaji Shaibu Usman has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
Alhaji Usman, who is the current Acting Eje Of Ankpa, was kidnapped on Friday at about 5:30am, while entering a Mosque in Ankpa.
It was further learnt that the kidnappers had laid ambush at the mosque, and zoomed off immediately with the Traditional Ruler to yet to be ascertained destination.
DAILY POST gathered that the abductors of the monarch are yet to make any contact with the family.
Meanwhile, the Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of the traditional ruler.
Usman is currently the acting Eje of Ankpa, in Ankpa Local Government area of the state.
The traditional ruler was reportedly kidnapped at about 5:30am on Friday while entering the Mosque to observe his early morning prayers. x
Although Usman abductors are yet to make any contact with the family, but the Kogi State police commissioner Ayuba Ede, who confirmed the incident, said the police have cordoned all entry and exit points into the state, with the view to rescuing the traditional ruler.
According to CP Edeh, the kidnappers laid ambushed at the mosque, and zoomed off immediately with the traditional ruler to a yet to be ascertained destination.
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The Kogi State Police Command, on Friday confirmed the abduction of a first class traditional ruler, Shaibu Usman.
Usman is currently the acting Eje of Ankpa, in Ankpa Local Government area of the state.
The traditional ruler was reportedly kidnapped at about 5:30am on Friday while entering the Mosque to observe his early morning prayers.
Although Usman abductors are yet to make any contact with the family, but the Kogi State police commissioner Ayuba Ede, who confirmed the incident, said the police have cordoned all entry and exit points into the state, with the view to rescuing the traditional ruler.
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Tension has gripped Obeiba Ihima community, in the Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State, following the abduction and murder of a 62-year-old hunchback, Ahmad Suberu, by suspected ritual killers.
Sources in the community told
PUNCH Metro that persons with humps had been disappearing in Obeiba Ihima and Ihima Ba in recent times.
Before Suberu, another pregnant woman with a hump was said to have been abducted about two weeks earlier and murdered by suspected ritual killers.
Suberu, an indigene of Ihima Ba, was reportedly kidnapped on Monday, November 23, 2020, at Obeiba Ihima, while on his way to a mosque for prayers.