Gunmen suspected to be bandits have intercepted some vehicles on Kaduna-Kachia Road in Kaduna State, abducting no fewer than 19 travellers and matching them into the forest.
The gunmen, who donned military uniforms, ambushed the passengers at Idon village in the Kajuru Local Government Area of the state on Friday night and carried out the attack.
Witnesses said a local government councillor from Southern Kaduna was among the victims, but was later found to have made out from the bush, though it's unclear if he paid any ransom to the abductors. AFP report.
The councillor alongside a few other escapees were found at Mararaban Kajuru where they were assisted by natives.
Another witness said the attack was on Friday night. The gunmen came in large numbers in military camouflage. So they felt it was a military checkpoint. They abducted many people, but some of them managed to escape from the bush, because it was in the night, but some others were unlucky.
Kaduna State has recently witnessed an upsurge in banditry and kidnapping incidents. A case which made the Nigerian Army to deploy its personnel to the Kaduna-Abuja Road.
As at Wednesday, the army announced that it had deployed 300 female soldiers to the notorious Kaduna-Abuja Road to tackle the rising spate of banditry, kidnapping and other crimes along the highway.
The army had drawn female soldiers from the 1 Division, Kaduna State, and said they were attached to the Nigerian Army Women Corps. The first batch of the troops were formally received on Wednesday by the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, at their Kakau base on the highway.
The governor expressed optimism that with the deployment of the soldiers, the insecurity along the highways would in no time be a thing of the past.
Reviewed by Mgbara Zion Barisuka
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February 01, 2021
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