Terrorists, often referred to as bandits, Sunday evening invaded the Chikakore community in Kubwa, Abuja, kidnapping five residents, including an entire family.
The heavily armed terrorists, numbering about 20, arrived the Health Centre extension axis of Chikakore around 11:00 pm.
Police sources disclosed that the attackers targeted the homes of their victims, including Adesiyan Akinropo, a resident from the South-Western part of Nigeria. The bandits kidnapped Akinropo, his wife, his son, and a visitor, as well as another neighbour, bringing the total number of abducted persons to five.
The attack also left a woman severely injured, with a deep wound on her head inflicted by the butt of a gun. She was rushed to the hospital, where she received treatment for her injuries.
Police operatives from the Byzahin division, it is understood, arrived at the scene an hour and a half after the incident, but the attackers had already escaped with their victims.
Lamented a resident: “The bandits have resumed attacks in Chikakore. We need a police division here in this community. We have land and a five-bedroom apartment already built to accommodate the police but there is no deployment yet.
“In the Sunday incident, the policemen came one and a half hours after the bandits had escaped with their victims”.
A meeting between the police and community leaders was scheduled for Monday to discuss the incident.
