Armed Robbers dispossess Vice President Sambo of N200 million assets

                                                          Vice President Namadi Sambo is said to still be
               in shock over an unspecified number of cows
                numbering 1000 to 2000 and valued at about
                N200 million stolen in a brazen robbery at his
                farm along Birnin Gwari road, Kaduna State.
                The robbery which is said to have occured about
                two weeks ago, saw armed men dressed in
                military garb storm the farm and load the
                imported specie of cow into trailers and
                                     disappear.


                                   A close associate of the Vice President told
                                    newsmen, “the monetary value of those special
                                    cows far exceed N200 million”, adding that “the
                                    incident and subsequent development look more
                                    like a deliberate attempt to strangle the VP
                                    economically because he has been a successful
                                        businessman in and out of politics.”

The source said the Government was
downplaying the incident due to the potentially
embarrassing PR, the criminal act could have on
the Presidency.

He said, “the issue, though not in the public
domain because of the quiet nature of the vice
president, it is generating strong suspicion and
mistrust not only in the presidency but between
Northern elite and the government because of
some other persons that were targeted in what
we regard as a calculated decimation of the
economic power of northern leaders.”

A Presidential aide is said to have downplayed
the incident saying only 1000 cows and not
2000 were stolen.

Incidentally several similar attacks have occured
in the recent past, Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu
Idris was also dispossessed of 250 cows said to
be worth millions by the criminal networkwho
invaded the first class royal father’s commercial
farm along Soba road in Zaria.

An aide to the Emir said, “this pattern of attack
leaves us with a conclusion that there is more to
it than meets the eye. A situation where trailers
escorted by armed men in military uniforms are
driven into well secured premises and hundreds
of expensive cows are driven away without any
security agent accosting them on the road or
any trace of where such are taken to points to a
dangerous dimension which does not augur well
for our economic well-being and the unity of the

nation.”