By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
Again, on Wednesday morning, bandits attacked Bwari and some parts of Zuma communities in the Federal Capital Territory, where two Policemen were injured and an undisclosed number of residents were kidnapped.
Daybreak gathered from concerned residents that two police officers were allegedly injured during a face off between the bandits and the police to secure the life and properties of people of the area.
It was learned that the injured officers were taken to hospital, and unidentified numbers of residents kidnapped by the bloodthirsty bandits.
Sources said that this is the fifth in the series of attacks since the Bandits began Strickling Garam Niger State, a boundary community with Bwari FCT.
Meanwhile, more than fifty-five victims have been kidnapped, while more than three people were killed in an attack. The fourth person who died was the wife of the Redeemed Christian church of God Pastor that was killed in the presence of his family.
It was reported that the Pastor’s wife was recovering when the Bandits called her line to place ransomed on her two kidnapped children who are presently in the bandits camp, having heard the demand report gathered revealed that the woman who could not bear the grief of the loss of her husband and agony of her two tender children who are within the age bracket of seven and nine years slummed, allegedly entered into coma and later gave up the ghost on Tuesday.
Daybreak also gathered that the Bandits spread their attack to Garam community on Monday Night/Tuesday Morning with sporadic Gun shorts that jostled residents to panic.
They were reported to abducted three members of one family unhindered by any security presence.
Furthermore, a staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company was unlucky as bandits broke into his house, forcefully kidnapped him, his wife and nephew and escaped with them on motorcycles into the bush.
It will be recalled that over fifty people have been reportedly kidnapped within the period of two weeks starting from 23 December 2023, a penultimate week to the New year in Garam, Kuduru, Azu.
However, the FCT Police command has debunked earlier reports of kidnappings in its territory, claiming that Kuduru where the second incidence of kidnapping happened falls under Niger state, and claiming that the Nation’s capital is more secured.
