By Newman Dotse

A combined team of Ghana and Nigeria Interpol have rescued the wife and daughter of Alhaji Sulley Abubakar, the legal adviser to the Governor of Ido State, Nigeria.

The wife of Alhaji Sulley Abubakar, Hajia Mamawu and a seven year old daughter Rukaya Abubakar, were kidnapped in Nigeria on the 24th of April and brought to Ghana on the 28th of April 2012.

The kidnappers contacted Alhaji Sulley on the 25th April, a day after his family was kidnapped, with an MTN number, asking him to meet them in Lagos. He went to Lagos to meet them but could not find them. He again received another call the following day (26th). This time, the kidnappers said they were in Abuja. Alhaji Sulley then reported the case to the Abuja police but the kidnappers could not be traced. Then on the 28th of April, another call was made by the same kidnappers from Ghana to him with lots of demands and conditions.

After painstaking search in Nigeria, Alhaji Sulley got wind of the fact that his family were indeed transferred to Ghana by the unknown kidnappers, hence he came to Ghana in the company of three Nigeria Interpol officers for further search.

While he was preparing to come to Ghana, the kidnappers called him with an MTN number demanding a $1.5 million ransom.

On the arrival of Alhaji Sulley and his group in Ghana, they contacted their Ghanaian counterparts, headed by superintendent Tabiri. After few days of investigation, they were able to track the location of the MTN number used to demand the $1.5 million ransom, which later led to the rescue of the victims at a guest house at Nungua Adogon, near the Ghana Commercial Bank Training School, where the kidnappers abandoned their victims on hearing that the police had been able to locate their hideout.

Information available to The Citizen Newspaper indicates that the wife of Mr. Ashiomule, the Governor of Ido State, died mysteriously last year. She was suspected to have been poisoned. Then on the 28th of March this year, the governor’s body guard was shot and killed by unknown assailants in Nigeria with no apparent reason; then the kidnapping of the family of his legal adviser followed.

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