Over 17 Kaduna kidnap victims held after N300m ransom

More than 17 kidnapped victims from Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State stay successful captivity, contempt implicit N300 cardinal reportedly paid arsenic ransom.

A assemblage person from Kauru Local Government Area, Reverend Musa Hassan Shadari, speaking with journalists successful Kaduna connected Saturday, decried the complaint of kidnapping for ransom successful the area.

Shadari, who raised the alarm implicit escalating bandit attacks successful the community, said “more than 50 radical person been killed and implicit 1,000 abducted wrong a three-month period.”

He stated that the incidents had near dozens of families devastated and communities displaced, adding that astir N300 cardinal had been paid arsenic ransom to unafraid the merchandise of galore victims.
The funds, helium noted, were sourced from relatives, the merchantability of nutrient reserves, and farmlands.

Shadari, who led a radical of villagers connected a protestation to the Kaduna metropolis, said nary less than 39 villages crossed the Kauru-West axis had been affected by the question of killings and kidnappings.

He added that the affected communities comprised radical of antithetic spiritual and taste backgrounds, including Muslims, Christians, Hausa, and Fulani.

He appealed to the authorities government, led by Governor Uba Sani, to deploy much information unit to the area, alleging that existing respon...