Katsina govt intensifies rescue operation for abducted ex-Defence spokesman, wife, others

Katsina State Government says it has intensified multi-dimensional information operations to unafraid the merchandise of erstwhile Director of Defence Information, Major General Rabe Abubakar (Rtd), his wife, and different persons abducted alongside them, expressing optimism that ongoing efforts volition output affirmative results.

In a connection issued on Saturday, the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Bala Zango, said Governor Dikko Radda has directed information agencies to prioritise the harmless rescue of the victims.

The authorities said preliminary findings bespeak that the abduction was a coordinated and targeted cognition carried retired by organised transgression elements, alternatively than a random attack.

It added that disposable quality suggests the retired wide and his woman were monitored and trailed from Kaduna, earlier being intercepted and abducted.

According to the statement, the quality of the cognition reflects a worrying displacement successful tactics by transgression groups operating wrong the region.

“The targeted quality of this transgression has provided captious quality that is shaping our effect strategy,” the connection noted.<...