23 persons have reportedly been abducted by heavily armed gunmen in Kawu community, Bwari Area Council of the FCT in the early hours of Thursday.
According to dailytrust, the Councilor representing the area, Abdulmumini Zakari, said the bandits arrived the community on Wednesday from the Kuyeri Forest in Kaduna State.
He explained that women and children were amongst those abducted by the gunmen numbering over 40.
“They divided themselves into groups and some went into the palace of the district head, Alhaji Abdurrahman Danjuma Ali, where they abducted his son, Lukman, and his wife, who he married two weeks ago. Others attacked the compound of Alhaji Alhassan Sidi Kawu, the Marafa of Kawu and a former PDP Chairman of Kawu Ward. They abducted him along with his four children,” he said.
