About seven persons have been reportedly kidnapped in Kadauri, a community in Jabaka district, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, on Friday, when bandits stormed the village unleashing terror on the people. Confirming the incident the Public Relations Officer of Zamfara State Police Command, SP Shehu Mohammed, on Friday, said seven children of one Alhaji Sani Gyare and one other a female from a neighbouring house in Kadauri village, Maru LGA of the state were abducted when notorious bandits entered the village with motorcycles and weapons.
“The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Abutu Yaro has deployed a combined team of CTU and Police Mobile Force who are currently on the trail of the suspects.
“The CP, who said that peace had been restored in the area, vowed to rescue the victims soonest.
“He charged the local communities to continue to give useful information to law enforcement agents, especially the Police, in order to bring the criminals to book,” Muhammed said.
Speaking to newsmen, father of the six victims, said he suspected the abductors came for him but missed him and took away his children instead.
“I was informed that when they got to the village, they went straight to my house and when they discovered l was not home they went away with my children and the daughter of one of my close friends and neighbour, Alhaji Sani Yellow,” he said.
The father of the six kidnapped children speculated that he suspected the kidnappers came for him but took away his children instead when they missed him.
NAN
