Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked residents in Kuchiko Resettlement Development Area (KRDA) located in Bwari axis of Abuja, the nation’s capital.
A resident was said to have been abducted during the attack in the area popularly called El-Rufai estate in the wee hours of Saturday.
It was gathered that the victim, Chinedu, was whisked away from his house within the estate to an unknown location.
The victim’s wife stated that the abductors who were armed forcefully took away her husband after breaking through the fence to gain entrance into their compound.
“They shot sporadically in the air to scare our family members and neighbours before taking my husband away, ” the wife said.
Chairman of the Kuchiko Resettlement Development Area, Mai Baba Bego, who confirmed the incident in a terse statement made available to Reporters on Saturday.
He revealed that the latest incident has brought to five, the number of kidnapping cases that have occurred in the area in the last couple of months.
“We now live in fear as nobody knows who the next victim would be,” Baba Bego said.
He called for the deployment of security personnel to the area to avert further incidents.
