Hajia Laure Mai Kunu, the elderly mother of Abdussalam Abdulkarim AA Zaura, a Kano Central Senatorial candidate on the platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen, according to reports.
Hajia Mai Kunu was apprehended on Monday morning at her home in the Rangaza ward of Zaura village in Kano State’s Ungogo Local Government Area (LGA).
Engr Abdullahi Garba Ramat, Chairman of the LGA, confirmed the incident on his official Facebook page. “Innalillahi wa inna’ilaihirraj’un,” he wrote. We just found out that unknown gunmen stormed Ungogo LGA early this morning and whisked AA ZAURA’s mother away to an unknown destination. Baba Laure, Allah ka kubutar mana.”
Read Also: Owo attack: APC’s silence confirms its complicity – PDP insists
For more than a decade, armed gangs operating primarily in northern states have spread terror through kidnappings for ransom, targeting students, villagers, and highway motorists.
Thousands of people have also been killed by them.
According to a report by SB Morgen (SBM) Intelligence, a Lagos-based political risk analysis firm, at least $18.34 million was paid to kidnappers as ransom – mostly by families and the government – between June 2011 and March 2020.
