Update – The gorilla claim has turned out to be false. On Friday, June 21, 2019, AFP Fact Check investigated the story and discovered that the zoo has never housed a gorilla in its 47-year history.
Umar Kobo, the managing director at Kano Zoological Gardens has said the missing N6.8 million was not swallowed by a gorilla as earlier claimed.
Recall that BBC Pidgin quoted a finance officer in the zoo as claiming that the gorilla “sneaked into their office” and carted away the money before swallowing it.
The alleged incident was said to have happened during the Sallah celebrations. Umar Kobo, the managing director of the zoo, confirmed that the money is missing and that the issue is being investigated.
“The issue is under investigations for now and I don’t want to say anything on the matter, many journalists have come to meet me but I don’t want to talk anything. What I can confirm is that money is missing,” he said.
“Suspected armed robbers stormed into the zoo and broke into the administrative section and burgled and ransacked seven offices,” Yusuf told Abubakar.
“A safe where 6.8 million naira was ripped open and the money stolen. The money was from gate takings during the Muslim Sallah (Eid) festivities. Nine security guards on duty were tied together and locked inside an office by the robbers.”
He said the money had been kept in the zoo office as it was received over public holidays, when “banks didn’t open”.
The should arrest all this liers,and take,their proper wot of that money from Them. From snake to monkey now gorilla
Yabaleft you wonderful
i think soonest we will hear say doy swallow 50 billion, it time we will start kidnapping all the animals around us to see if we will see the one with money, liers