by Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
Terrorist activities have resumed again, in Kaduna State. Just recently (during the week), a least one person was reportedly feared killed, while several other natives were abducted when heavily armed terrorists invaded a community in fresh attacks in Kajuru LGA of Southern part of the state.
Eye witness account alleged that the incident occurred on Wednesday night when the terror group attacked an area of the community, popularly known as Kajuru Station.
According to the local source, many residents (including women and children) fled into the bushes at different directions when the news of the terrorists’ invasion was heard.
The source explained that the bandits ran after the fleeing natives, aggressively, killing one and abducting a number of persons yet to be fully ascertained, at the time of compiling the reports.
Some of kidnapped victims were separated after some distance away and asked to go back home by the bandits, who left with several others.
Contacted for more details, the police spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, ASP Mansur Hassan, could not respond.
However, a retired journalist native of Kajuru, who was contacted, confided that killings and kidnapping occurred off-and-on in the area, citing example of the pathetic killing of a journalist and former Kaduna NUJ Vice Chairman, Mr. Bulus Amfani.
He said the former VC of Kaduna Council of NUJ, who was kidnapped and killed for inability of the wife and children to meet the N20 million ransom demanded by the bandits, was buried just about last month.
Also contacted, chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, John Joseph Hayab, described the situation as alarming.
“It’s quite alarming. Even this morning, I saw army in their large numbers going into some of the bushes themselves.
“It shows that kidnapping is going on, the bandits are going into communities trying to kidnap people, but the army is also pushing on them. I want to assume that it’s the push they are trying to resist that they are trying to do what they are doing.
“It’s sad that we still have people, who are victims, and we need to wake up from our slumber, because this will not just go off until we stand up strongly and resist it,” he said.