IN this report, The ICIR’s Lukman Abolade visited Kagara town in Niger State, where 38 residents were abducted by unknown persons who have demanded a N15 million ransom, as kidnapping reigns in the state.

ON Thursday, September 28, Isiya Lukudi, a resident of Kagara town in Niger State woke up early in the morning, around 7.00 am, to travel to Tegina, where he sells his farm products.

This has been Lukudi’s routine for over five years since he raised enough money to rent a shop in the nearby community.

He told The ICIR that he would return home to Kagara every day around 5.00 pm. But that did not happen on that Thursday. Terrorists attacked his village.

“I noticed that vehicles were not coming from the road that leads to Kagara, so I had to go to the garage to get a cab but they said they are not going,” Lukudi said.

After inquiries from officials of the motor park, Lukudi found out that KagaraLukudi could not go to Kagara that evening until around 2.00 am, but when he got home his pregnant wife, Hassana Isiya, their children, and his sisters were gone.

How terrorists attacked Kagara

Residents of Kagara who spoke to The ICIR said the terrorists laid siege to the town around 5.00 pm that evening.

Bala Musa, a resident, said they were going about their business as usual when they noticed guns-wielding men on motorcycles emerging from the forest.

Musa, whose wife was kidnapped during the attack, said they heard sporadic gunshots that forced them to come outside their homes. was being attacked by kidnappers,again.

Kagara was previously attacked by bandits on February 27 when terrorists kidnapped 27 students from the Government Science College, located in the town.

''We just heard gunshot from everywhere, people were running everywhere, we saw them on bikes, there were more than 200,” Musa said.

He said the terrorists dispatched themselves to different corners of the town, forcing doors open, chasing and abducting any man, woman, or children they could find.

Aliyu Mohammed, another resident whose three children were kidnapped during the attack, said that he noticed that many of the terrorists also aimed at the palace of the Emir of Kagara town.

“While some of them were chasing local residents, I saw many of them on their way to the Emir’s palace. They wanted to abduct him too,” Mohammed said.

However, he said security operatives present in the town foiled the attempt to abduct the Emir.

A 36-year-old farmer, Alasa Isa Samboro, said the number of security operatives in the town was unable to foil the attack by the terrorists.

Samboro said the attackers came with ammunition, AK-47 rifles and machine guns, which helped them overpower the security operatives in Kagara that evening.

READ MORE HERE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/gloomy-days-reign-for-kagara-families-87-days-after-kidnap-of-38-residents/

Insecurity everywhere in Nigeria, yet the upper elite class are only bothered about the next election.

NIGER STATE KENAN

This country ehn
It’s not even looking as if the government aren’t involved in all this cos a little is done to bring end to the kidnapping and bombings!!!