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Fake medical worker who specializes in treating bandits arrested in Katsina
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By Bashir Bello
A fake medical worker, one Musa Shamsudin, who specializes in allegedly treating sick and wounded bandits has been arrested in Kankara axis of Katsina state.
It was gathered that the suspect, Shamsudin (25-year-old), an indigene of Kogi state but residing in Kankara was suspected of always going into the forest to give the bandits medical treatments.
The spokesperson, Katsina State Police Command, SP Gambo Isah, confirmed this to newsmen in the state on Tuesday.
SP Isah said the suspect was said to have suddenly disappeared after the bandits attack leading to the abduction of the over 300 Kankara school boys and later resurfaced.
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Tue Apr 20 2021
Family members of a popular Kano Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abdullahi Shehu Mai’Annabi, who was kidnapped alongside his younger brother and 11 of his students enroute Zamfara State, 40 days ago, are worried as the deadline the kidnappers gave to pay ransom ends.
The kidnappers gave the family April 12 – 20, 2021 to raise N5m to balance up the N10m ransom they demanded to release nine people still in captivity.
Daily Trust had reported how the family was directed to pick the corpses of four of the victims after paying N5m to the kidnappers.
The oldest son of the cleric, Malam Isyaku, who was at Daily Trust office in Kano last week, could barely hold back his tears as he recounted the trauma the family has gone through since the abduction of his father in March.
They initially demanded N15 million but after negotiation, the kidnappers agreed to collect N10 million.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 02, 2021
A Kano cleric, Sheikh Abdullahi Shehu Mai Annabi, who was kidnapped alongside 12 other people on their way to Zamfara State to attend Maulud in Anka town, is still being held, Daily Trust gathered.
The son of the cleric, Isyaku Abdullahi Shehu, said the cleric, with 12 other members of his team, including his brothers and students, all from Rimin Kebe area of Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano, were kidnapped about three weeks ago around Sheme town of Katsina State by gunmen who demanded a ransom of N10 million from the family.
He said they initially demanded N15 million but after negotiation, the kidnappers agreed to collect N10 million.
“We have already gathered and submitted N5 million to the kidnappers. But when we got to the place they directed us to go and pick our people, they only brought four dead bodies of them.
“When we asked them why they killed them, they said we must give the agreed N10 million for them to release our father and the other nine people, or else they will also tell us where to go and pick their corpses.
“We couldn’t even carry the corpses because they had already decomposed. We had to bury them there,” he said.