BREAKING: Gunmen Invade Abuja, Abduct 22 Farmers, Burn Tractors

• Bandits on rampage in Abuja, burn tractors, abduct 22 farmers

• ….Saidu Yakubu, a farmer, who escaped, said the incident happened around 2pm on Thursday.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Capital City of Nigeria, Abuja, has been overrun by bandits who have burned two tractors and kidnapped 22 farmers.

The occurrences took place in the Gurdi ward of Abuja’s Abaji Area Council’s Rafin-Daji neighborhood.

In Niger State, Rafin-Daji and the Zago village share a border. The Gurara River connects the two settlements.

The incident occurred on Thursday about 2 pm, according to farmer Saidu Yakubu, who managed to flee.

He claimed that farmers in the neighborhood were attacked by bandits brandishing AK-47 weapons.

He said the bandits shot sporadically into the air before whisking away the farmers and burning down two tractors on a large farm land in the community.

According to him, 13 family members were among the 22 abducted victims.

He gave the names of the family members as Ismaila Barde, Mustapha Barde, Nasiru Barde, Abdulkarim Barde, Sanusi Barde, Usman, Barde, Nura Barde, Abdullahi Barde, Babawo Barde, Farida Ayuba, Hauwa Ayuba and Hussaini Abdullahi.

He said the 13 family members, including two females, were working on separate farm lands when they bandits swopped on them.

“It was only God that saved me as I managed to escape when the bandits were shooting into the air,” he said.

Alhaji Bala Mohammed, the district chief of Gurdi Chiefdom, confirmed the kidnapping of farmers and the burning of tractors to our reporter over the phone on Friday, but he said he had not yet determined how many farmers had been kidnapped.

The district chief claimed that because robbers typically infiltrate his chiefdom through Niger state, his people were under siege.

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Bala claimed that he had informed the police and the Abaji Area Council officials about the most recent kidnapping episode.

A text message sent to ASP Oduniyi Omotayo, a spokesman for the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, regarding the most recent kidnapping incidence has not received a response.

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