Gunmen have reportedly abducted Nigeria’s former minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bagudu Hirse in Kaduna state. Daily Trust reports that Hirse was abducted “right in front of the residence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s powerful nephew, Alhaji Mamman Daura, on Inuwa Wada road in Kaduna.”
Mamman Daura was reportedly at home when the gunmen struck
It was learnt that the former minister, with his friends, had gone on a
condolence visit to the family of the late Sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki on
kabiru road. This is a few meters from Inuwa Wada road. He then decided to make
a quick stopover at the house of Daura who was reportedly at home and was
receiving guests and other family members.
The report quoted a witness as saying that Hirse alighted
from his car with a friend he simply identified as Talba and was exchanging
pleasantries with some guests who were standing in front of Daura’s house when
an ash-coloured Toyota Corolla drove into the street at top speed and stopped
in front of the former minister and his friends. The witness said the three
young men, armed and masked, jumped down from the car and accosted the former
minister almost immediately.
“From what I could
hear, they were asking him to get into their car but he was trying to seek
further explanations from them but at that time, people started approaching the
scene so one of them raised the gun he was holding and made to shoot but it did
not fire, he tried it the second time and it failed, but the third time, a shot
rang and people ran for dear lives,” the witness said
At the time of this report, the whereabouts of the victim
was yet to be ascertained and the police was yet to react. Kaduna has gradually
become a hub for kidnappers in Nigeria. In October, Laurentia Laraba
Mallam, the minister of the environment during the government of Goodluck
Jonathan, was abducted along with her 73-year- old husband, Pius in Jere,
in Kaduna state. She was released about 24 hours after the incident.
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