Anthony Iwuoma
Bandits have continued to terrrorise Zagzaga community in Munya Local Gocernment Area of Niger State, invading the area several times recently and abducted a total of 80 persons.
In the recent incident, the third in one week, 10 more villagers were abducted.
During several raids last week, 70 residents were abducted in the council area.
The bandits are demanding a whopping N150 million ransom before they would release their captives.
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According to Blueprint, a local source said: “The bandits returned to the community at about 8:00am riding on 10 motorcycles and started shooting anyhow after which they abducted ten of us.
“They parked their motorcycles about 500 meters from the community, came on foot and began to select those that they wanted to take along. They were asking for the names of some particular people, suggesting that they were working with some informants.
“Later that day, the bandits reached out to the community leaders to demand for N150m for the release of the 70 people they abducted. They told us that the money was for the 70 people, including three nursing mothers that were freed because of their babies and a man who escaped from their den, on Monday.
“They even told us to go and sell our yams and other farm produce to raise the money. They told us too that they decided not to disturb the community since April this year after dislodging the military from the area so as to enable us to farm very well to be able to pay the ransom.
“Their commander asked me that whether the community is not happy that they even allowed us to farm this year. He was even boasting that no amount of security could prevent them from invading any community they wanted to invade, so we should just go and look for the money.
“People are now leaving Zagzaga in droves as a result of the activities of the bandits who have set up a camp at Sohon Kabula with not less than 30 motorcycles at their disposal,” he narrated.
