Amaechi: I was not attacked in Kaduna
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Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, has denied a news story that he was attacked in Kaduna by gun men on Sunday night.
An online newspaper, Not The Witness had reported that the minister and hundreds of train passengers escaped naarrowly Sunday night after suspected kidnappers opened fire on their vehicles as they left the Rigasa station in Kaduna.
But in a reaction on his Twitter handle, Amaechi thumbed down the report as ‘fake news”.
” This ?? is completely concocted”, he wrote.
According to the report, the gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, opened fire from their ambush position in Mando on the cavalcade of vehicles leaving the station, in search of preys to capture. They wanted to force the vehicles to stop.
The train reportedly arrived at Rigasa train station around 8:15pm.
But no sooner the shooting began than mobile policemen and soldiers arrived the scene in armoured vehicles. The hoodlums .
“We were lucky the police and soldiers are nearby to come our rescue. The minister of Transport Rotimi Amaechi was among the passengers. His convoy had to make a detour onto Rigasa Road,” said a passenger, Musa Lawan, who reportedly spoke with the online newspaper.