Armed herdsmen have defied the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari by attacking residents at the nation’s capital Abuja with AK47 guns right in their houses, demands a ransom of fifty million naira each.
The latest of this was a rampaging attack on residents of Kiyi Town, Kuje, Abuja where dozens of armed herdsmen went from house to house kidnapping residents in their sleep between 12 midnight and 2am this morning, Wednesday, March 24, 2021.
Four residents were abducted in the operation including Mr Salami Olalekan, a Staff of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA. The armed men broke into his house by tearing down the iron bars of a back window from where they took their victim on foot across grasslands towards the hills behind Kiyi Town.
A relative of one of the victim, Mr. William Salami, who happens to be an elder brother to Mr. Salami Olalekon explained that the kidnappers called once and asked for N50 million ransom for one person.
“The kidnappers did not carry any property, except a cooking pot, probably to be cooking in the bush they contacted the police anti-kidnapping squade who visited the house and area”
” the other three kidnapped persons includes a motorcycle rider, a technician and a taxi driver” he added.
When contacted, the FCT police public relation officer, ASP Mariam Yusuf, said “four persons were kidnapped and we have launched an operation to rescue the victims and apprehend the fleeing suspects”.
