Abuja Under Seige, As Over 20 Bandits Attack Community, Kidnap Three Family Members, Two others
Gun men were reportedly attacked a community in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and kidnapped a family of three and two others on Monday, January 27, 2025
It was reported that no fewer than 20 gun-wielding bandits attacked Chikakore community in Kubwa in the FCT, on Sunday evening, and carried out their nefarious activities.
It waw learnt from police sources that the attackers invaded the Health Centre extension axis of Chikakore, around 11pm, forcing themselves into the houses of their victims, including a Southwesterner, Adesiyan Akinropo.
“They kidnapped the man (Akinropo), his wife and his son, their visitor. The bandits then took away another neighbour to make five persons.
“The bandits also injured a woman on the head, with the butt of the gun. She bled profusely and had to be rushed to the hospital. The police operatives from the Byzahin division later came to the area but the assailants had escaped,” the source said.
We learnt that the police operatives and the community leaders had scheduled a meeting for Monday to discuss the incident.
One of the residents told SaharaReporters that the police operatives came an hour and a half after the incident had occurred.
“The bandits have resumed attacks in Chikakore. We need a police division here in this community. We have land and a five-bedroom apartment already built to accommodate the police but there is no deployment yet.
“In the Sunday incident, the policemen came one and a half hours after the bandits had escaped with their victims,” she lamented.
Efforts to reach the FCT police command for comment failed as its spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, did not answer calls from our reporter.
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