I Sold My Official Car To Pay Ransom To Bandits Who Kidnapped My Wife, Children — Sokoto LG Boss Tells Panel

The immediate past Chairman of Gudu Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State, Bello Wakili Bachaka, said he sold his official vehicle to pay over N4 million ransom to bandits for the release of his kidnapped wife and two children.

Bachaka, who served from April 2021 to April 2023, told the State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Monetization of Official Vehicles that toward the end of his tenure, his wife and two children were kidnapped by bandits who demanded over N4 million as ransom.