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.
According to reports, Kawu shares borders with 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 gave an explanation: “They split out into groups, and some of them entered the district chief Abdurrahman Ali’s palace and kidnapped his son Lukman and his wife, whom he had just married two weeks prior.
Some others attacked Alhassan Kawu’s compound, the Marafa of Kawu, and the previous Kawu Ward PDP chairman. He was kidnapped along with his four kids.
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 miscreants actually raided that general area and made their way into Kaduna State, she claimed.
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.
