Bandits were again on rampage on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway. They raided Anguwar Maji area of Jere, a community in Kagarko Local Government Area and abducted 22 residents.
On Saturday, Inspector-General Alkali Usman led a team of senior police chiefs to patrol of the expressway.
A villager, Shehu Bala, who confirmed the incident to reporters, said the residents were taken away at about 11pm on Sunday.
He said the bandits, who came in large numbers, invaded some houses and went away with 22 residents, including five women.
“The bandits came in their large numbers as some of them wore army uniforms. They moved from house to house and woke their victims up before they marched them into the bush at gunpoint,” he said.
According to him, the bandits operated in the community for more than an hour without challenge.
He added that they only started shooting to scare people from coming after them after leaving the community.
Bala, however, said one among the 22 kidnapped victims escaped from his abductors while being led into the bush.
There was no confirmation from the Kaduna State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Jalinge, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). Efforts to reach him by this reported were unsuccessful.
The Kaduna State government had not reacted as at the time of filing this report last night.
But Senator Shehu Sani, who represented the Kaduna Central District in the Eighth National Assembly, confirmed raid on his verified twitter account.
In a tweet, Sani identified those kidnapped as one Alhaji Yusuf and his family; Alhaji Kasuwa and his family; Dantala Direba and his family; Sule Maishago and his family and unspecified number of Almajiri children.