Gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped Colonel Rabi’u Garba Yandoto (retd) and his two children along Gusau-Tsafe road in Zamfara state.
An indigene of the area Mohammed Hassan said that Yandoto was going to his hometown together with his two children last Sunday night when he was ambushed by bandits and taken to the forest.
Hassan said, “The bandits ambushed the retired Colonel in the night on Sunday and kidnapped him along with his two children and two other victims”.
“We heard gunshots and started running into the bush for fear of the bandits but later realized that, Colonel Yandoto was their target”. Said Hassan.
Yandoto is a closest political rival to Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa and has been campaigning against Marafa’s ambition of winning election in 2023.
He is the leader of Zamfara APC political group called “Wake da Shinkafa” with the sole aim of ensuring that Kabiru Marafa did not win the senatorial seat come 2023.
Frantic efforts were made to speak to the spokesperson of the state police command SP Mohammed Shehu but could not be reached on phone by the time of filing in this report.
