The Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Kogi State, Wakili Damina, has been abducted by armed men dressed in army camouflage.
The State Secretary of MACBAN, Adamu Abubakar, disclosed this to newsmen in Lokoja on Tuesday, adding that Damina was abducted on April 30.
According to eyewitnesses, the abductors, numbering about eight, came in a white bus at about 12 noon to “forcefully” take away the Chairman from his house at Chikara village, Kogi Local Government.
Abubaka said he was informed of the incident about an hour later by the younger brother of Damina who claimed he witnessed the incident.
He immediately called the phone number of the missing Chairman, but it rang out.
Abubakar said, “Since then, his lines are not reachable and all efforts to know his whereabouts proved abortive.”
The Secretary said that he immediately notified the state Commissioner of police of the development, adding that the state government was also informed through the Special Adviser on security matters to the governor, Jerry Omodara.
He said that he and some members of the association visited the Nigeria Police Force headquarters, Abuja, to know if Damina was in their custody but they said no.
Abubakar also said that a search party raised by MACBAN had visited other places, including abattoirs in and around Abuja but the Chairman could not be found.
The state Commissioner of police, Ede Ayuba, said that the police are yet to locate the whereabouts of the Chairman.
