Niger Commissioner Mallam Idris Mohammed have been abducted by gunmen.

Indepthnews reports that Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted the Niger State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mallam Idris Mohammed.

It was gathered that the Commissioner was kidnapped on Sunday night by heavily armed men who invaded his residence at Baban Tunga, Tafa local government area of the State.

The armed men said to be numbering about 20, stormed the residence of the Commissioner at about 11: 00 pm under a heavy downpour and shot sporadically into the air before abducting their victim in front of his second wife.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun could not be reached as at press time.

Details later….