Bandits Demand N100m To Release Six Policemen In Katsina

Bandits holding six assistant superintendents of police, captive in Katsina state for over one week have placed a release fee of N100m on them.

The ASPS, who are among nine that were just promoted, were attached to the mobile police squadron 6, Maiduguri, Borno state.

A police source explained that the nine asps were planning to go to Zamfara state together but one of them changed his mind at the last minute while the others embarked on the trip in a commercial bus.

Reports say, two of them escaped and one of them was shot in the leg though he didn’t die. He found himself at a village and the villagers took him to a police station and he was taken to a hospital. The other six officers are still with the bandits who are demanding N100m ransom.