Dadiyata: Kaduna govt distances self from whereabouts says not involved in abduction

The Kaduna State government yesterday broke its one year silence on the whereabouts of Abubakar Idris Usman also known as Dadiyata who had gone missing after unidentified men abducted him from his home in Kaduna on August 2, 2019.

The state government in a statement by the Ministry of Justice signed by the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Aisha Dikko, said it has no idea of the whereabouts of Dadiyata and has no involvement whatsoever in his reported abduction.

Daily Trust reports that Abubakar Idris was in the early hours of August 2, 2019, bundled into his BMW car by unknown persons shortly after he arrived at his home in the Barnawa neighbourhood of Kaduna.

Dadiyata had arrived home around 1 am and was said to be answering his phone in his compound when the assailants breached his home security, forced him into his vehicle, locked back his gate, and sped off. He has not been seen since then.

According to the commissioner, “It amounts to stretching the fact that Dadiyata was abducted within Kaduna State to mean the involvement of the state government in the matter.”

She said the state government has neither filed any complaint against him with the police nor instituted a suit before the court.

However, while responding to the petition sent to the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) which led to the withdrawal of an invitation for Governor Nasir el-Rufai as a spokesperson of its annual general conference, Dikko stated that the criminal cases mentioned in the petition “have a common thread of incitement and spreading false information which cannot be tolerated in any civilised community, not least in a state that has suffered from so much ethno-religious strife.”