Reports reaching Africa Today News, New York has it that bandits in the wee hours Sunday stormed Lema community in the Mando area of Kaduna, opposite the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, the State capital, where they abducted a pregnant woman.
According to an eyewitness who spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity, the bandits also kidnapped seven other people from three houses at about 1am on Sunday.
One of the residents whose name was given as Musa Danladi, disclosed that they were all afraid to step out of their houses because of heavy gunshots by the bandits.
‘They came around 1am and took away eight residents, including a pregnant woman, who came to visit her sick mother in the community. This is not the first time bandits would attack our community,’ he said.
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This was even as other members of the community called on the state government to come to their rescue.
The State government was yet to comment on the incident, but the State Police Spokesman, DSP Mohammed Jalige, said he would find out the details and get back to Daily Sun, but was yet to do so at the time of filing the report.
In a related development, the Chairman of the Taraba State Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev Isaiah Magaji Jirapye has again expressed sadness at the unabated killings in the southern parts of Taraba and the country at large raising the alarm that there are now more terrorists than security agents in Nigeria.
Jirapye who doubles as the National President of the Christian Reformed Church-Nigeria (CRC-N), said the country’s security apparatus has been overstretched.
Making his position known on Sunday while speaking to journalists he said the ‘issue of insecurity in the southern part of Taraba State is true.’
‘A lot of killings have been going on there” the church has spoken against it and we will continue to speak against it.’
Jirapye who called on believers to pray seriously for God to bring the killings to an end wondered why the figures of bandits have continued to exceed that of the security operatives.