Rampant Bandit Assaults Hit Abuja: Kawu Village Targeted, 23 Abducted in Brazen Attack

The series of assaults by bandits on some communities in the nation’s capital, Abuja, continued on Thursday as they stormed Kawu village in Bwari Area Council, abducting 23 persons.

 

Kawu, an FCT village that shares boundaries with Niger and Kaduna states had not been on the radar of the bandits in recent times since they began a regular assault on villages in Bwari and in Garam, a village in Niger state.

 

The gunmen numbering about 40 were said to gave divided themselves into groups in order to be able to launch the multi-prong assault.

 

Deputy Leader of the Bwari Area Council Legislative arm, Abdulmumini Zakari, who represents the area, said the gunmen arrived around the community the previous day from the Kuyeri Forest in Kaduna State.

 

“They divided themselves into groups and some went into the palace of the district head, Alhaji Abdurrahman Danjuma Ali, where they abducted his son, Lukman, and his wife, whom he married two weeks ago. Others attacked the compound of Alhaji Alhassan Sidi Kawu, the Marafa of Kawu, and a former PDP Chairman of Kawu Ward. They abducted him along with his four children”, he explained.

 

According to him, the bandits also went into the compound of Sarkin Pawan Kawu, Gambo Pawa, and abducted him alongside his two wives and some children.

 

Since December last year, while the activities of bandits had reduced in Kuje, Kwali, and Abaji, it has heightened in Bwari. CONTINUE READING…………………..

 

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