When the uniformed men mandated by law to protect citizens are taken by the very people they are supposed to protect citizens from, what then becomes of the citizens?
12 Assistant Superintendents of Police have allegedly been kidnapped by some gun bearing men while they were on their way to Zamfara State for an operation from Borno State.
The report of the incident was shared by Bulama Bukarti, a lawyer aho claim he heard it on BBC Hausa.
He shared a Tweet to announce the incident.
”BBC Hausa reports that twelve police officers (all ASPs) have been abducted by bandits. The wife of one of the officers told the BBC that her husband had phoned and instructed her to sell his house to raise ransom. She said she knows the families of eight other abducted officers.
That families of the officers are working to raise 800k each to rescue them. When the BBC contacted the Borno Police Command, from where the officers were deployed, they directed the BBC to the Katsina or Zamfara Commands. Both claimed to have no knowledge of the incident.
That officers were abducted together speaks volumes on the extremely scary situation developing in the northwest. If police officers in police convoy could be abducted, what more of ordinary Nigerians with no arms, training or equipment? It’s clear that we are playing with fire.”
