A 500-LEVEL student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Mansur Garba and some yet-to-be-identified people were abducted on Wednesday by gunmen suspected to be bandits in Zamfara.
This newspaper gathered that the abduction happened on the highway leading to Gusau, Zamfara State capital when the bandits stopped a car carrying no fewer than six passengers, including Mansur Garba.
The vehicle was going from Sokoto to Gusau.
The gunmen kidnapped the passengers and took them to an unknown location.
A friend of Mansur who confirmed this to this newspaper on Friday morning revealed that his family announced the message about Mansur’s abduction on Thursday evening.
The undergraduate is in the middle of his final school examination and if he is not released by the terrorists before Saturday, he will automatically miss his next examination and this will affect his graduation this year.
“He was taking his final exam but because there were three to four days to his next paper, he decided to come home to attend to something very urgent.
“He boarded a commercial car and it was on their way that they met the bandits. He was among those who were kidnapped that day. We are yet to know his location,” the friend said.
“What we hear is that he was not the only one abducted because he was not the only one in that car. But we are yet to know the exact numbers of the passengers with the bandits currently,” Mansur Garba’s friend added.
At the time of publication, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Yezid Abubakar, was unavailable for comment.
He did not return numerous phone calls from this newspaper and did not reply to yexys and WhatsApp messages sent to him.
