There is growing insecurity in Abuja as 23 persons were kidnapped on Thursday when a group of bandits invaded the Kawu hamlet in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory.
Speaking about the incident, the area’s councillor and deputy speaker, Abdulmumini Zakari, stated that the gunmen estimated to be in their 40s entered the community on Wednesday after travelling from Kuyeri Forest in Kaduna state.
He said that, “They divided themselves into groups and some went into the palace of the district head, Abdurrahman Ali, where they abducted his son, Lukman, and his wife, whom he married two weeks ago.
“Others attacked the compound of Alhassan Kawu, the Marafa of Kawu, and a former PDP Chairman of Kawu Ward. They abducted him along with his four children.”
He added that the bandits also went into the compound of the Sarkin Pawan Kawu, Gambo Pawa, and abducted him alongside his two wives and some children.
Confirming the incident, spokesperson of the FCT Police command, Josephine Adeh, detailed that the assailants escaped into Kaduna after raiding the area.
“Some unknown hoodlums stormed Kawu village, a borderil community with Kagarko LGA, in Kaduna State, and kidnapped people. The truth is that the miscreants raided that general area and escaped into Kaduna State,” she said.
The tragedy comes 24 hours after it was reported that terrorists kidnapped 85 people at Katari, in the Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State, along the Kaduna – Abuja route.
On Sunday also, gunmen posing as military personnel reportedly broke into the Sagwari Estate Layout in the Dutse-Alhaji neighborhood of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and abducted 11 people.
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