The abductors of 23 persons in Kawu village in Bwari Area Council of the FCT have relocated their victims to a forest around Akilbu community in Kaduna State along the Kaduna-Abuja highway and have demanded five motorcycles and foodstuff from the families of the victims.
City & Crime had reported that bandits last Tuesday invaded Kawu and abducted 23 persons, including females, and that four among the victims were later released to go home and source N20m as ransom.
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Speaking with our reporter through telephone on Tuesday, Malam Mu’azu Alhassan, a relation of one the victims, said the bandits called through telephone on Monday and asked the family to buy foodstuff for them.
Alhassan said, “Just yesterday, being Monday, the bandits leader called that the victims who were in their captivity were in Akilbu Forest and that they needed rice, beans, three cartons of spaghetti and a gallon of palm oil.”
He added that the bandits also demanded five motorcycles from the families of the victims.
