The residence of the Plateau State Commissioner for Environment, Usman Bamaiyi, located in the Gindiri community, Mangu Local Government Area of the state was in the early hours of Saturday attacked by yet-to-be-identified gunmen.
The Informant247 gathered that the government official was not around when the gunmen stormed his house at about 2 am.
The gunmen who were said to have broken into his apartment in their large number however abducted his wife and daughter.
“Some heavily armed men came to Gindiri last night around 2 am. They went straight to the house of the State Commissioner for Environment. The sound of gunshots fired by the gunmen was too much. When they eventually left, we discovered that they took the commissioner’s wife away alongside his daughter,” The Punch Newspaper quoted a resident of the area to have narrated.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Ubah Ogaba, also confirmed the abduction of the commissioner’s wife and daughter.
According to him, “When we got the information around 2:30 am, we quickly mobilised our tactical team to the area. At the moment our men are working to rescue the victims and arrest the perpetrators.”