Gunmen raided Tungan Maje, a suburb of Abuja, early Thursday, abducting an unspecified number of residents, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.

One resident said at least 20 people were kidnapped after prolonged shooting in the community that lies near Zuba. This figure could not be immediately confirmed.

The police spokesperson for the federal capital territory, Anjugur Manzah, told PREMIUM TIMES he was working on a statement on the incident.

He did not confirm the number of those kidnapped, or whether there re casualties.

A resident of the area who would not be named for security reasons said heavy shooting started in the community at about 12.15a.m. and lasted more than an hour.

He said members of the local vigilante group were overwhelmed.


“We didn’t sleep throughout the night. It’s this morning that the vigilantes told us about 20 people were abducted,” he said.

The attack is coming weeks after reports suggested that members of the extremist group, Boko Haram, had infiltrated the federal capital.

Police have confirmed the attack, saying 10 people were kidnapped and five rescued.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/413592-updated-gunmen-attack-abuja-community-abduct-residents.html

There is serious fire on the mountain yet we all are asleep.. the cancer called insurgency in the North keeps spreading, getting bigger till it will consume the entire body (country).

To whomever it may concern, the time to act is now.

Coming out of their hiding so soon? It is well

I strongly suggest that we should start protecting ourselves and stop wasting out hopes on the security agencies..

There was an Intel by d customs dat there will be an attack in Abuja and true true it happened, one then wonders d essence of d Intel

The suburb and the communities at the fringes are always the soft targets.

Their aim is to displace them and take over their lands.

To even think there was an Intel some days ago makes this more perplexing.

Do we have intelligence gathering at all?

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I thought there was an Intel on this already? Were proactive steps not taken?

BTW what was the essence of bringing the Intel to the public in the first place? Or are you now asking the public to defend themselves?

I don't see how you'll tell us killers are coming and then do nothing about it. What are we supposed to do? Run away? We should be ashamed right now.

jlinkd78:
There was an Intel by d customs dat there will be an attack in Abuja and true true it happened, one then wonders d essence of d Intel

If it's not a country that is upside down was it the custom service that should be handling such info?