SAN FRANCISCO, December 07, (THEWILL) – Chief Damishi Sango, former Sports Minister, and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau state, has been kidnapped by by yet to be identified persons.
This was revealed by the Plateau Police Command spokesman, Terna Tyopev, who confirmed this to NAN on Thursday in Jos, saying that Sango was abducted alongside four others around Jere-Garkawa road in Kaduna State.
He said that the Plateau Command was working in synergy with the Kaduna office to rescue the victims and possibly arrest those behind the incident saying it had reached out to the Kaduna Command on the matter.
“They were on their way from Jos to Abuja on Wednesday evening when the kidnappers abducted them,” he said.
“The spokesman of the Kaduna Police Command has told me that the Commissioner there has ordered ordered his men to comb everywhere to rescue them.”
Tyopev urged members of the public with any useful information to contact the Kaduna or Plateau formation.
Sango and his entourage were on their way to Abuja for the Saturday PDP National Convention when the abductees got them.
“He left home around 4 p.m. for Abuja, but at about 6 p.m., when someone called one of the persons Sango traveled with, a policemen picked the call and told him (caller) that they found the phone in a vehicle abandoned on the road.
“Apparently, the kidnappers took them to an unknown destination and left the vehicle just by the road side.”
PDP Deputy Chairman in Plateau Amos Gombi, who also confirmed the incident, said that Sango and his team were abducted on their way to Abuja.
“We have not heard anything since they were abducted; all we know is that the vehicle in which they traveled is now at the police station,” he said.
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