{"id":26492,"date":"2016-06-30T02:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigerian-anti-corruption-singer-kidnapped\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T02:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:34:38","slug":"nigerian-anti-corruption-singer-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigerian-anti-corruption-singer-kidnapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian anti-corruption singer kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Police say Ado Halliru Daukaka, who is currently recuperating in a hospital, was found unconscious and emaciated.}<\/p>\n

Daukaka told the BBC’s Isa Sanusi that he was tricked into a car on Friday morning by kidnappers.<\/p>\n

He had released a song mocking politicians who don’t keep their promises and he says this is why he was targeted.<\/p>\n

One of his wives told police unknown people had visited his home the day he disappeared.<\/p>\n

He told our correspondent that the kidnappers had driven him out of Yola city and then played his new song, and began asking him why he had recorded a track mocking politicians.<\/p>\n

“They threatened me and said they would take my life and repeatedly asked why I was criticising politicians and warned me to stop or lose my life,” Daukaka said.
\nHe said they kept him without food for two days during his captivity.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning, the kidnappers blindfolded him and let him go in a forest, Daukaka said.<\/p>\n

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