Terrorists who kidnapped the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) while on his way to assume duty at Birnin-Gwari in Kaduna State have threatened to kill him.
Friends and relations of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) said despite paying millions as ransom, the terrorists have vowed to kill the DPO.
“They first demanded N550 million. We told them we don’t have much money. We consulted our relations and good friends who donated N5 million and gave the terrorists. After collecting the N5 million, they told us that the money was for feeding and we should buy them recharge cards for N1 million and a Boxer motorcycle in addition,” a relative of the kidnapped DPO said in an interview with the BBC Hausa.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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