IBRAHEEM HAMZA MUHAMMAD
The Chief of Rijana town in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been kidnapped, on Thursday, in his farm.
Rijana is a town along the Abuja – Kaduna Expressway. It has a Railway station and it is not far from where bandits bombed a train and kidnapped passengers, recently.
A source, who pleaded anonymity, said Chief Ayuba Dakolo Ayuba was kidnapped on Thursday morning when he went to check his farm outside the town.
He said that the news was broken in the town in the afternoon that the chief had been kidnapped by bandits.
The source said that the people had noticed the arrival of many armed men around the bushes in the town and surrounding towns
The source said that the bandits don’t usually attack the people of the town, because they are poor, but last week, they kidnapped a villager and demanded foodstuffs and beer as ransom for him.
The source called on the government and security agencies to be proactive and intensify patrol as Muslims would ply the road on their way to different states for Eid il Fitr – end of Ramadan – fast celebration.
A senior government official, who preferred anonymity, has confirmed the incident and said that they were studying the situation and trying to bring it to a peaceful end.