Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja
13 individuals have been kidnapped from Piko, a distant neighborhood in Bwari Space Council of Abuja, by suspected gunmen throughout a stealth invasion of the neighborhood that caught vigilance group and different safety businesses unawares.
A supply on the neighborhood disclosed yesterday that the Maidakin of the neighborhood, Chief John Jatau, confirmed that 10 residents have been kidnapped, together with 4 nomadic Fulani herdsmen. Nevertheless, one of many nomads escaped from the abductors’ custody.
He listed the next as these kidnapped and nonetheless within the captivity of the abductors: Nuhu Anyiwoyi, Emmanuel Nuhu, Danjuma Ali, Parisa Numa, Ezekiel Jatau, Shekwosa Ezekiel, Roseline Samuel, Salome Jacob, Abyelo Ezr, and Ezra Male.
It was additionally gathered that the abductors have positioned N900 million ransom on the victims.
He mentioned: “The kidnapping incident occurred final Sunday at about 11p.m.
The abductors raided the village for about one hour with none response or response from the neighborhood or outsiders, and the main problem the neighborhood confronted final night time by way of communication to others was because of no telecommunication community within the village, so that they picked individuals from home to accommodate, kidnaping 13 individuals and later launched three.
“The Madakin Piko knowledgeable me that they’ve known as and so they mentioned they want the ransom of N900 million. They picked about 4 Fulani individuals and one in every of them is launched.”
When contacted, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, neither confirmed nor refuted the kidnap incident.