We received reports today that a German citizen was kidnapped at his workplace in the (construction companies) Dantata Sawoe in Zaria? road overpass in Kano this afternoon, said Kano police chief, Ibrahim Idris, told Reuters. We're investigating. We're trying to figure out what we could do to track them, he said.
Kano, a city of about 10 million people, hit by militant violence over recent weeks.
The series of bombings and shootings hit Kano after Friday prayers last week, killing 185 people, in attacks claimed by Boko Haram directed at police headquarters and other police offices, a police and immigration office buildings.
The shooting also occurred in some areas of the city, which has so far escaped the worst violence for several months now blamed on hardline? Muslim groups. A police source told AFP Nigeria, Thursday, about 200 people were arrested after the attack.
A day earlier, on Wednesday, the President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan, who was accused of failing to control violent militant group, took off with the police chief said the new figures are needed to lead the agency.
Jonathan picked up Mohammed D. To replace Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, as the first step toward broad reorganization and repositioning of the Nigeria police force to make it more effective and able to meet the emerging challenges of internal security, the president's office said in a statement.
Ringim was removed with six assistants when the country was rocked by a wave of bomb attacks and shootings by hardline Muslim group Boko Haram's second largest city of Kano, killing at least 185 people.
The attacks were the deadliest operations by the group and aimed primarily at the police station. Increasing violence in Nigeria since the attacks killed dozens of people during the celebration of Christmas 2011 that claimed by the Islamist group Boko Haram.
Boko Haram claimed dozens of attacks in Nigeria, including suicide bombings in August at the UN headquarters in Abuja that killed at least 24 people. A series of bomb attacks in the city of Jos, central Nigeria, on Christmas Eve 2010 also claimed by Boko Haram.
Boko Haram violence launched in 2009 which was brutally crushed by the military that killed about 800 people and destroying mosques as well as their headquarters in the city of Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria. The group was inactive for about a year and then appeared again in 2010 with a series of murders.
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