Bandits are said to have killed five people and kidnapped four more in Dogon Dawa, Layin Mahuta, and Tabanni in Kaduna State’s Birnin Gwari Local Government Area.

Within a week, the kidnappers abducted 17 more people.

This was said in a statement issued on Saturday by Ibrahim Abubakar Nagari, Chairman of the Birnin-Gwari Vanguard for Security and Good Governance.

He said, “on March 15, 2022, Haruna Tanko Dogon Dawa and two others were cruelly murdered in the Eastern part of Birnin-Gwari by armed bandits along with Dogon Dawa- Zaria. Eight other people were abducted on the same route.

“At Layin Mahuta (Tabanni) one Abdullahi Abubakar, a school teacher was killed by bandits along Layin Lasan-Tabanni road on March 16, 2022. While on March 17, 2022, a seventy-year-old man was killed and seven women abducted at Layin Mahuta Tabanni. Two other people were abducted by the bandits at old Tabanni.” He said

The statement while appreciating the efforts of security agencies and the Kaduna State Government, urged security personnel to always respond to distressed calls around Dogon Dawa, Kuyello, Tabanni and Kutemeshi wards in Birnin-Gwari

However, the Kaduna State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige did not respond to text messages sent to him to confirm the said attacks.

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