Whereabouts of kidnapped Sokoto
businessman still unknown – Police on november 10, 2013 at 7:36 pm in news Sokoto – The Sokoto State Police Command on
Sunday declared that it had yet to ascertain the
whereabouts of Alhaji Abu Dakure, a Sokoto-based
business tycoon, who was kidnapped by unknown
persons. Dankure was kidnapped by unknown persons last
Wednesday in Sokoto. The spokesman of the police command, Al-Mustapha
Sani, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Sokoto that the command was, however, monitoring
the situation “very keenly. “We are on top of the situation but the kidnappers
have not made any call as yet; there is nothing about
ransom for now,’’ he said. “His (Dakure’s) GSM handsets are still off and the
lines cannot be reached by anybody,’’ he said. Sani, however, assured relations and anxious
members of the public that the police were working
round the clock to unravel the mystery behind the
abduction of the businessman. Alhaji Mamman Dangaladima, an elder brother to the
abducted business mogul, who also spoke with NAN,
said that prayers had been intensified for God’s
intervention in the incident. “We have prayed and shall continue to pray that God
will bring him back in perfect peace,’’ he added. Dangaladima, who noted that the abductors had not
called family members or security agencies,
expressed optimism that God would soon bring the
family’s harrowing experience to an end. The  four unknown gunmen on Wednesday night
seized Dankure around 9 p.m. at the Kupper
neighbourhood of Sokoto, where he is constructing a
new plaza. His car, a Toyota Camry car, was, however,
recovered by the police in a farmland near Durbawa
village in Kware Local Government Area of the state.
(NAN)