Family tackles police in Kaduna over seized 31 cows

A family in Kaban village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State is fervently struggling to recover some 31 cows said to have been seized from it by the police in the state.
The police allegedly said the animals had been moved to Abuja but all efforts to sight or recover them have proved abortive.
The family has thus sent a petition to Governor Nasir El-Rufai and the State commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdurrahman, to help recover them which, it said, had got missing while in police custody.
A spokesperson for the family, Abubakar Ibrahim, popularly known as Habu, said at a media briefing, “I have never owned a gun in my life. I personally met the officer who also told me that their investigation later showed I’m innocent yet he requested N700,000 bribe from me before the cows could be released but I told him I didn’t have that amount of money so he later collected N200,000. Yet, the cows have still not been returned.
“My sibling and my brother in-law, who went after the cows to inquire reasons for the police action, were detained for two weeks. We have no option but to bail them with N580,000. So far, we have spent N1.750 million to recover those cows and the sheep because they (police) kept collecting money from us without telling us where the cows are. The police officers kept telling us that the cows have been taken to Abuja.
“This is why we are calling on the state governor and the commissioner of police to intervene by calling on the police officers to return our cows.”