Bandits have shot dead a man, Joshua Bawuna, his 16-year-old son, Ayuba Bawuna, and abducted 14 other people in Gidan-Makeri village in Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State.
Gidan-Makeri is a kilometre away from neighbouring Janjala in the same LGA.
A resident of Janjala, Awwalu Mas’udu, said that around 11pm on Sunday, the bandits parked their motorcycles on the banks of River Gurara before invading the community.
He added that, “I heard gunshots in Janjala when the bandits were shooting in Gidan-Makeri.”
He further said, “Despite phone calls to soldiers in Kagarko town to alert them that bandits had invaded Gidan-Makeri, none of them responded till the bandits left with the victims.”
When contacted, the spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, ASP Mansur Hassan, did not pick calls or reply to an SMS on the incident.
In a related development, gunmen operating around the Pmape and Gaudna axes in Kagarko LGA on Sunday ambushed 18 villagers who visited Gaudana community for the first time after they were sacked to ascertain their abandoned home.
A community leader, John Alpha Dogo, told our correspondent that the villagers left Ngami community where they had been taking refuge for over three months since they were sacked by bandits.
He explained that, “The villagers left on 10 motorcycles and headed to their village, Gaudana, to search for any useful item like foodstuff, possibly left behind by the bandits following the reported security improvement there, but only to see the gunmen arriving in the community and setting fire on their parked motorcycles.
“The villagers hid in their abandoned farms and hurriedly left the area as the gunmen moved towards a different direction.”
He added that 17 of the villagers arrived back in Ngami in different batches, as one person was still unaccounted for.
The command’s spokesperson, ASP Hassan, could not be reached.
