On Thursday, a group of about forty bandits raided the Kawu hamlet in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, kidnapping twenty-three persons in the process.
Kawu is bordered by the states of Niger and Kaduna.
Speaking on the incident, the deputy speaker of the council and councilor for the area, Abdulmumini Zakari, stated that the gunmen entered the community on Wednesday after traveling from Kaduna State’s Kuyeri Forest.
He explained, “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 went on to say that the bandits also entered Gambo Pawa’s complex, the Sarkin Pawan Kawu, and kidnapped him, his two wife, and a few kids.
SP Josephine Adeh, a spokesman for the FCT Police Command, confirmed the event to reporters on Thursday night, mentioning that the attackers had attacked the area and fled into Kaduna State.
“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.
This tragedy occurred within twenty-four hours after it was reported that terrorists had kidnapped eighty-five people at Katari, in the Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State, along the Kaduna – Abuja route.
In a similar vein, gunmen posing as military personnel reportedly broke into the Sagwari Estate Layout in the Dutse-Alhaji neighborhood of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Sunday and abducted eleven people.