Three weeks after the FCT Commissioner of Police visited the village chiefs of Rubochi, Gwargwada and Gwombe in Kuje Area Council over cases of kidnapping, gunmen on Sunday abducted nine villagers in Monu village in the council.
A family member of one of the victims, identified simply as Joshua, said the incident happened around 2pm when the victims were in a forest loading logs of wood into a truck, but that they later freed eight of the victims and held onto the wood contractor.
He explained that, “After they trekked for about three kilometers, the gunmen told eight among the victims to go back home; that they had gotten their main target.”
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City & Crime learnt that the gunmen had severally warned the wood contractor to desist from going into the forest, which they claimed to be their hideout, to cut down trees.
The Agabe of Ugbada in Gwargwada village, Alhaji Hussain Agabi Mam, confirmed the kidnapping of the nine people, noting that the community where the incident happened was under Rubochi village.
The spokesperson of the FCT Police Command, DSP Josephine Adeh, was yet to react on the development at the time of filing this report.
