Bandits again hit Abuja, abduct FHA Director
By Emma Ogbuehi
The worrisome climate of insecurity in the country, dipped further on Thursday as suspected bandits kidnapped a director at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Aondo Ver.
The kidnappers struck few days after the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike read riot acts to criminals in the area.
According to a source, the incident happened at Pambara New Extension, Bwari Central Area of FCT around 12:30 am on Thursday.
Pambara New Extension is about 200 metres away from the military camp and checkpoint in Bwari.
The hoodlums were said to have gained access to their victim through the fence after cutting the barb wires. All attempts by the vigilantes in the area to rescue the victim proved abortive due to lack of sophisticated weapons.
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All efforts to get the reactions of the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh were futile.
The incident comes on the heels of the kidnap of five school children, three teachers and a bus driver in Emure Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Monday, January 29. The gunmen were said to have ambushed the school bus carrying the pupils from a private nursery school back home at about 5 p.m. By Tuesday, the kidnappers had issued a demand of N100m for the release of their victims.
The same Monday, bandits attacked a vehicle conveying three traditional rulers between Oke-Ako and Ipao Ekiti, in Ajoni Local Government Area, also in Ekiti state. Two of the monarchs – the Onimojo of Imojo, Oba Olatunde Olusola, and the Elesun of Esun Ekiti, Oba Babatunde Ogunsakin, lost their lives in the attack, while the Alara of Ara Ekiti, Oba Adebayo Fatoba, narrowly escaped.
Elsewhere, the situation is not better. In Imo, the former chairman of the state’s traditional rulers’ council, Eze Samuel Ohiri of Orodo community in Mbaitolu local government area, was released from captivity, by his abductors, after being held for over two weeks.
Within the same period, terrorists in Kaduna, killed at least 17 people and kidnapped 58 others in three communities in Kauru Local Government Area. Same day, a different gang of bandits struck in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), abducting seven members of a family and killing a policeman. One of the victims was killed while others were released after a crowd-funding exercise to raise the ransom demanded by their captors.