Bandits have abducted five persons from Tekpeshe-Gurdi community in Gurdi ward of Abaji area council of Abuja.
Daily Trust had reported how bandits
invaded Tekpeshe community two weeks ago, killing one person and abducting
others.
More than N5 million was paid as ransom
before the victims, including a former councillor, Mohammed Ibrahim Tanko,
alongside 16 others, were set free last Friday.
The bandits held down the village chief’s
son, Ibrahim Sarki, and demanded additional N8 million ransom.
Confirming the latest kidnap incident
through telephone on Saturday, the incumbent councillor representing Gurdi
ward, Wozhe Ishaya, said bandits blocked the road at Tekpeshe-Gurdi, where the
residents were abducted.
He said the abducted persons were returning
from neigboring Tekpeshe community on their back to Gurdi when the ran into the
bandits.
“Actually, the victims went to Tekpeshe
community to sympathise with some abducted victims that were set free by
bandits, while on their way going back Gurdi, they ran into the bandits,” he
said.
He said the bandits, who were wielding
sophisticated weapons, also snatched six motorcycles in the process.
Ishaya disclosed that some residents of
Dadin Kowa, a neigboring village, were currently fleeing their community over
fear of attack.
“In fact, even as I am talking to you right
now, some villagers of Dadin Kowa have started leaving their village because of
that incident,” he said.
The former councillor that represented
Gurdi ward, Mohammed Ibrahim, who is a native of Tekpeshe, also confirmed the
abduction.
“The bandits actually went to collect
ransom of some victims they abducted at Zago village last week. At the spot
between my village and Gurdi, some villagers who left Tekpeshe on motorcycles
were returning home when they ran into them,” he said.
The district head of Gurdi, Alhaji Bala
Mohammed, could not be reached for comment as he did not pick calls put across
to his phone.
The spokesperson of the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) police command, DSP Adeh Josephine, is yet to reply to text
message sent to her about the latest kidnap incident.