An Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC) Abdulrahamam Ibrahim Gelele, of the Niger State Correctional Centre Minna, was allegedly abducted by gunmen.
In a statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), CSC Rabiu Mohammed Shuaibu, the ACC was kidnaped since the April 17, 2024.
Shuiabu disclosed that the officer was abducted along Ilorin-Minna Road when he was coming back from Ilorin on vacation.
The statement also revealed that the kidnappers had so far made contact with family of the victim once and since then, cut off all communications with either his office or the family.
Read the statement: “The Controller of Corrections, Nigerian Correctional Service, Niger State CC Mohammed Hamisu Isa, on behalf of the officers and men of the command solicit your prayers for his safe release and freedom from the captives, please”.
The incident, ti was gathered, was earlier kept secret out of the belief that he would soon regain his freedom, however, after over a week in the custody of his abductors, his abduction has become a open secret even in the headquarters of the facility.
