REVEALED: DOCTOR WHO LOST WIFE TO KIDNAPPERS DONATED POLICE STATION TO HIS COMMUNITY.{PHOTO}.

     By Jamilah Nasir

The family of Philip Ataga, a Kaduna-based medical doctor, fell into the hands of the exact calamity he was trying to avert in his community, fresh details have revealed.
Bola Ataga, his wife, was killed by kidnappers a week after she and two of their children were abducted from their residence at Juji, near Sabon Tasha, Chikun local government area of Kaduna.

The kidnappers had reportedly demanded N150 million ransom but when the family could not meet the request, they killed Bola and subsequently demanded N20 million for the release of her children.
Sunday Ogwu, a Facebook user, who said he spoke to Ataga after the incident, wrote on his page that the doctor recently donated a police station to his community to help improve the security situation – after at least three persons were kidnapped in the area late last year.“The commissioning had the AIG of the zone and the Kaduna State Government officials in attendance, to the delight of the community that has become plagued by constant adoption,” Ogwu wrote.

Yakubu Sabo, spokesman of the Kaduna state police command, confirmed to TheCable that Ataga donated a police station to his community in 2019. Although he could not immediately state the exact period, Sabo said it was in “the last quarter of last year”.
According to Ogwu, the police station is “barely 50 meters” from Ataga’s residence.
“The other reason why it had to process was that, the said police station is located barely 50 meters from Dr Philips residence, where the bandit operated for 3 hours, 10 pm to 1am, unhindered, with sporadic gun shots, until, they succeeded in breaking down the walls, killing the police dogs and reaching for his family,” he said.
“My subsequent engagement with Dr Philip reveals all the effort that were made to reach the police and military high authorities while the operations lasted.
“The bravery of the local vigilante who only bare dane guns was met with superior gun power, which sadly resulted in one of them paying the Supreme price. The public can now understand why the community protest of 25th January received major media publicity, with the locals alleging, police conspiracy.”.

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SAD: BANDITS DUMP BODIES OF DOCTOR’S WIFE AND SEMINARIAN ABDUCTED IN JANUARY
Kaduna kidnappers are getting deadlier and more ruthless as the corpses of two of their victims were found on Saturday: a seminarian, 18 year-old Michael Nnadi and the beautiful wife of a Kaduna-based medical doctor Philip Ataga.
The bodies of Mrs Ataga and Nnadi were found dumped by the roadside, meaning they were kidnapped by the same ruthless gang, at different times and different places.
While Nnadi was kidnapped in the night of 8 January in his seminary, Mrs Ataga and her two children were kidnapped on 24 January by armed men from the family’s residence at Juji, in Chikun LGA of Kaduna state.
Her captors were said to have killed her after her family failed to meet their demand of a N150 million ransom for the deceased and two of her children who were also abducted.
“The bandits killed Mrs. Ataga, dumped her corpse and called her husband and directed him to pick the corpse at a particular location’, the Cable reported earlier on Saturday.Her corpse was picked and deposited at the mortuary at the Barau Dikko Specialist Hospital, Kaduna. After killing her, the bandits are still reportedly making a demand of N20 million ransom for the release of the children.

Nnadi, whose body was also recovered on Saturday was one of the four students kidnapped from a Kaduna seminary.