Gunmen suspected to be terrorists have abducted two teenage sisters from Guita community, Chikakore, located in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
This incident occurred just eight days after residents of Chikakore protested to the office of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, regarding the deplorable state of the major road linking their community, which they cited as a contributing factor to the frequent kidnappings in the area.
According to reports gathered by SaharaReporters on Wednesday, the kidnappers returned last Sunday around 11:25 pm, despite the presence of military personnel and policemen patrolling the area.
It was reported that six gunmen seized the girls, aged 16 and 14, and fled through the forests and hills in the vicinity.
A police source in the area, confirming the abduction to SaharaReporters on Wednesday, stated that the attackers also took three children belonging to a man, comprising two girls and one boy.
However, they released one of the boys in the bush and instructed him to inform their father to prepare a ransom of N30 million for the safe return of the girls.
The source said, “The gunmen have changed their approach when they came; they didn’t shoot like before, but forced themselves inside. While they were forcing themselves inside, the owner of the house (a Calabar man) ran to the vigilante’s office, then, he ran to the commander’s house before the commander could call another person, and rush to his house, the gunmen were already gone.
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“It was when they were going, they started shooting, unlike before, they would shoot before the operation and till the end.
“They took three of his children, two girls and one boy, but they went away with two and sent back one (the boy) from the bush that he should go and tell their father to prepare 30million naira for their ransom.
“When they were taken, the two girls (16 and 14 years) one of the girls was wearing night gown, the mother tried to plead with the gunmen to let her wear something for the cold, but instead they beat up the mother. She had no option than to just let the girls go the way they were under the cold.
“Before the police came to the scene, they were already gone. Some of the vigilante later traced them to the railway line, to the rocks but there was no trace anymore.
“The man that his daughters were kidnapped is a front liner security payment and he has made some several donations to the community.”
However, upon reaching out to SaharaReporters, Josephine Adeh, the spokesperson for the FCT police, pledged to acquire the information and respond accordingly.