Kidnappers have kidnapped greater than 100 folks in two new assaults in northwestern Nigeria, weeks after greater than 250 schoolchildren have been rounded up in the identical state, residents and officers instructed AFP on Monday.
The kidnappings came about individually over the weekend in Kajuru space of Kaduna State.
Gunmen kidnapped 87 folks at Kajuru Station on Sunday night, based on native authorities chairman Ibrahim Gajere.
“They began taking folks out of their houses at gunpoint,” he mentioned.
Resident Harisu Dari mentioned teams of attackers, recognized regionally as bandits, stormed the village round 10pm and went door to door kidnapping residents.
A UN supply and a former native official, each talking to AFP on situation of anonymity, confirmed the story.
Based on Dari, the UN supply and former native official, 16 folks have been kidnapped on Saturday in Dogon Noma, about 10 kilometers away.
Kaduna police and the state safety commissioner didn’t reply to repeated requests for affirmation.
Final week, armed males kidnapped dozens of individuals from one other village in Kajuru district.
Legal gangs typically perform mass kidnappings in northwestern Nigeria, concentrating on faculties, villages and highways the place they will shortly rob giant numbers of individuals for ransom.
Earlier this month, gunmen kidnapped greater than 250 college students from a college in Kuriga village, about 150 kilometers from Kajuru district, one of many largest such assaults in years.
The wave of large-scale kidnappings poses a problem to the federal government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which has vowed to deal with insecurity.
Nigerian danger consultancy SBM Intelligence says 4,777 folks have been kidnapped since Tinubu took workplace in Could final yr.
