Bandits have abducted the son of Alhaji Abubakar Maikano, President Muhammadu Buhari’s top aide and Administrative Officer (AO) in the Presidential Villa.
This is coming nearly four months after the official residence of Mr Maikano inside the Presidential Villa was burgled.
Sanusi Maikano, who is in his early 40s, is the third child of Mr Maikano.
Security sources in Kaduna said the young man was kidnapped on Saturday around 8:30pm after returning from his farm house.
Witnesses said Sanusi was abducted in his residence in Gwantu, headquarters of Sanga Local Government Area in Kaduna State.
Gwantu is about 2 hours drive to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The armed bandits, numbering about eight, trailed Sanusi from his farm house to his residence, a security official said.
The bandits didn’t harm anybody inside the house, where Sanusi’s two wives also reside.
“When they came to the house, they found three young men, including the younger brother of the victim. They asked ‘where is Sanusi?’ They were told that he was not around. But they insisted that they saw him alighting from his car not long ago,” one of the sources told 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE on Saturday.
Another source said the gunmen tied one of the young men identified as Sanusi’s younger inside the house. “As the bandits were coming out of the gate, they met Sanusi coming in. They quickly released the boy and took away Sanusi,” the security source who declined being named, said.
Sanusi, it was learned, was in his father’s house which is a stone throw when the assailants came to his house.
The gunmen took away the their victim without firing any shot. “It was when they left the area and headed to the un-tarred road leading to the General Hospital that they fired four shots in the air,” another source said.
Sources said there was no any security in the house when the gunmen came. It was gathered that one of the soldiers stationed in Gwantu always escorted Sanusi to his farm house located behind the Roman Catholic Church.
In May this year, robbers had broke into Maikano’s official residence in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, days before another attempt on the residence of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari.
Professor Gambari lives on a street next to the Presidential Villa.
Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, while confirming the incidence at Gambari’s residence, said: “The police, in a related development is searching for a suspected burglar who unsuccessfully attempted to break into the house of Maikano Abdullahi on Thursday, last week.
“Maikano lives on the same street with the Chief of Staff, close to the Villa,” he said.
There was no immediate comment from the police command in Kaduna over the incidence.
