Bandits have reportedly abducted a Kaduna-based philantophist, Engr. Ramatu Abarshi and daughter, including the commercial driver conveying them to Kaduna after a humanitarian service at Mariri community in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state.
A source disclosed to journalists in Kaduna on Sunday that the victim who is a chief lecturer and former Head of Department(HOD), Electrical Engineering, Kaduna Polytechnic and her daughter were returning to Kaduna, after a visit to Mariri village in Kajuru Local Government, and distributed household items to the less privileged.
According to the Source, it was after she distributed the items, and was coming back to Kaduna that the bandits stopped their chattered vehicle, and kidnapped them in a village, near Kasuwan Magani.
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“She came to distribute cloth and other basic items to orphans ahead of the Eid-el- Fitr celebration.
“She exchanged pleasantries with dozens of people in Mariri and posed for pictures with many people before they left in the evening,” the source said.
According to the source, somewhere between ‘Crossing and Kasuwan Magani,’ their vehicle was said to have been attacked by bandits who abducted all three including the driver.
A family friend of the kidnapped victim also told journalists that the bandits have made contact and demanded N100 million for the release of Engineer Ramatu and her daughter.
Consequently, a lecturer in Kaduna Polytechnic, Aminu Nasir Jasawa confirmed the development on phone, as a Facebook account name, Ibrahim Bello also posted on his Facebook page and reads: A philanthropist, Ramatu Abarshi , a former Head of Department of Electrical Engineering, Kaduna State Polytechnic has been abducted by bandit terrorists alongside her daughter, Amira, after distributing Ramadan gifts local communities of Mariri town in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
A family source said the bandits trailed them on Saturday noon around Kasuwan Magani in Kachia Local Government, southern part of Kaduna State”.
