The Nigeria Customs Service yesterday said it has established contact with a Lagos-based Customs officer, Mr. James Gadzama Pallam who was abducted by gunmen with seven others including his wife, five children and a cousin in a village between Adamawa and Borno states.
Speaking on telephone in Abuja, Mr. Wale Adeniyi, national public relations officer, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Headquarters, said the officer was in good condition and doing well. Daily Sun had exclusively reported that the Customs officer and his family had been missing without a trace after attending his brother’s wedding in Maiduguri, Borno State on April 7.
Daily Sun gathered that gunmen in Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) and said to be in police uniforms, intercepted the family around Firgi, a boundary town between Borno and Adamawa states on April 8.
Although Adeniyi did not say exactly where the officer was being held, he explained that the service was making frantic effort and arrangement to bring him back to re-unite with his family. “Why did you (Daily Sun) not contact us before writing the story?
What I can tell you for now is that we have established contact with him and now making effort to bring him back to re-unite with his family,” he said. Adeniyi did not explain the type of effort being made and whether they were negotiating with the gunmen or involving other security agencies for their release.
Family sources, however, told Daily Sun that Pallam and other vitims were found in Yaounde, Cameroon Mr. Pallam’s relation, who was a former deputy speaker, Adamawa State House of Assembly, Emmanuel Tsamdu, had told Daily Sun that the incident had been reported to the police in Borno State.
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