KADUNA: Gunmen kidnapped 65 persons at Libere village but govt didn’t report it – SOKAPU

THERE are strong indications that the spate of abduction rocking the Northwest part of the country is grossly underreported.

This is following the disclosure by the spokesmen of the Southern Kaduna People Union (SOKAPU), Luka Binniyat, that bandits invaded Libere Gari Village, Kallah ward, Kajuru Local Government Area of the state days ago and abducted 65 people.

Explaining how the incident happened in a statement issued yesterday, Binniyat said the bandits arrived the village at about 11 pm on Tuesday, shot indiscriminately to the air to scare the villagers before  kidnapping 65 villagers..

He, however, said that 10 of the victims were able to escape the following day.

The statement read, “For reasons not clear to SOKAPU, Kaduna State government did not include in its daily security update the abduction of 65 Adara villagers from Libere Gari Village, Kallah ward, Kajuru Local Government Area in the southern part of Kaduna State on Tuesday night by persons identified by the villagers as armed Fulani militia.

“The gunmen, who arrived at the village around 11 pm, went about shooting in the air to scare villagers as they captured their victims from compound to compound. They spent two hours unchallenged. The kidnappers have yet to make contact with family members as of Friday.”