Bandits have reportedly demanded N40 trillion as a ransom to release the 16 residents abducted from the Gonin Gora area of Kaduna.

Speaking with TheCable on Monday, John Yusuf, a community leader, said the bandits contacted family members of the victims and also demanded 11 Hilux vans and 150 motorcycles.

This is the first time bandits would make such a huge demand since abduction for ransom started in Nigeria.

On February 28, bandits killed two residents of Anguwan Auta in Gonin Gora and abducted several others.

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After the attack, residents of the area on February 29 blocked the Kaduna-Abuja highway for several hours to protest against the killing and abduction.

Yusuf said the bandits attacked the community twice within the week.

“The bandits have contacted us. They are demanding N40 trillion, 11 Hilux vans and 150 motorcycles for the release of 16 people they are holding captive,” he said.

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“Where are we going to get this kind of money? Even if we sell the entire community, we cannot raise N40 trillion. Even Nigeria as a country has never made a budget of N40 trillion.

“The abductions happened twice within four days interval. During the first attack, three people were kidnapped while in the second attack, 13 people were abducted bringing the total number of people being held captive to 16.”

He said the communities in Birnin Gwari are surrounded by bushes serving as hideouts for the bandits, adding that the establishment of a military base would tackle the criminal operations in the area.

“We are pleading with the government to come to our aid by establishing a military base behind our community where the bandits take advantage of the bushes to invade our community,” Yusuf said.

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“From our community down to Birnin Gwari which is over 150 kilometres is a stretch of bush.

“We also have another stretch of bushes from Gonin Gora down to Niger state.

“So when the criminals have free access through the bushes to our community. We are pleading with the government to help us.

“The army are really trying, despite the fact that they are seriously overstretched. Whenever we make distressed calls they come.

“But the problem is that before they reach the community, the bandits would have done what they wanted and left.”

The community leader commended the Nigerian Army for their efforts in fighting bandits.

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He called on the federal government to take necessary actions to address banditry saying, “if not it is going to consume all of us”.

https://www.thecable.ng/bandits-demand-n40trn-as-ransom-for-16-abducted-kaduna-residents/amp?/bandits-demand-n40trn-as-ransom-for-16-abducted-kaduna-residents

They should pay them

When you have a cocaine lover and criminal as President, it will be Business as usual for Terrorists.

The buffoon called Tinubu is quiet, but he attacked GEJ when Chibok girls were abducted.

This is the first time bandits would make such a huge demand since abduction for ransom started in Nigeria.

Probably the disatrous fall of the value of the naira under these criminal mandate made these criminals to ask for such

Nigeria today is sheep without shepherd.
Radical cluelessness, failure and disater.

Tinubu no excuses! No blame game scam!
Bring back our girls.
Tinubu bring back our children.

This is what happens when illiterates get a hold of your business plan. They fuuuck things up.

The National Budget of Nigeria is #28 TRILLION. These idiots are asking almost DOUBLE of that.

By the way, the problem of kidnapping in Nigeria can be solved in a few weeks.

Just capture one or two of the kidnappers. Give them an expedited kangaroo trial and sentence then to death. Not by hanging. That's too nice.

Get TV and radio stations to broadcast it in Hausa and Fulani so that the criminals will understand.

Then have them killed on air execution style. The criminals on their knees and the exceecutioners standing behind them.

Use a high caliber rifle with a big bullet to make sure their brain splatter the camera nicely.

Announce, again in Hausa and Fulani, that this is the new normal.

Banditry has become a lucrative business here in the north.

why cant government trace this transactions?

N40 Trillion? How much is a human worth through their lifetime?

Bookhub:
why cant government trace this transactions?

When you are determined to commit crime, you will bother less about who is tracing and whose not

Can they count #40 trillion naira?

I am seriously suspecting some APC politicians have a hand in this game

Kuku give them our 2025 budget in advance

Yes we are getting there.

Now it is glaring that this is a political abduction, big enough to run the Arewa republic for 5years

They should have asked for 40 trillion dollars.
Mumu terrorists and mumu APC Tinubu government playing with the lives of Nigerians.

Namaster:
This is what happens when illiterates get a hold of your business plan. They fuuuck things up.

The National Budget of Nigeria is #28 TRILLION. These idiots are asking almost DOUBLE of that.

By the way, the problem of kidnapping in Nigeria can be solved in a few weeks.

Just capture one or two of the kidnappers. Give them an expedited kangaroo trial and sentence then to death. Not by hanging. That's too nice.

Get TV and radio stations to broadcast it in Hausa and Fulani so that the criminals will understand.

Then have them killed on air execution style. The criminals on their knees and the exceecutioners standing behind them.

Use a high caliber rifle with a big bullet to make sure their brain splatter the camera nicely.

Announce, again in Hausa and Fulani, that this is the new normal.

Guy you have my vote for President anytime any day

Nigeria as a country doesn't even have up to N40 trillion.

handiwork of Buhari's cousin

They've heard about the Bilions and Trillions Mr President has being busy printing and distributiing underground.
They should print and pay them make the naira fall gabadaya ,make all of us rest .

#40 Trillions? How much are the bandits ,their lineages and State worth?

Abegiiii!