Bandits terrorising Kaduna State in the wee hours of yesterday abducted 14 persons at a community called Iri Station, which is about 8 kilometres from Idon town, Idon Ward in Kajuru local government area of the State.
Confirming this development, Supervisory Councillor of Admin, Finance and Health, Kajuru LGA, Bala Jonathan gave the names of the abductees as Abdullahi, Yakubu Isah, Samson Julius, Angelina Julius, Pasema Daniel, Junior Julius.
Others are Bobo Julius, Saratu Mohammed, Asenath Sunday, Confidence Jerry, Barnaki Sunday, Moses Kenneth, Danladi Goma and Ummi Jibrin.
According to the councillor, some of the earlier kidnapped victims are still with the bandits because their loved ones and communities have not been able to raise the ransom demanded by their abductors.
A local intelligence revealed that the bandits have been launching deadly coordinated attacks on the harmless communities from the same location around Ungwan Makeri of Mokoro Zankariya, Idon ward area of Kajuru, without any known response from the State government and security agents to secure lives and property of these people.
In this year alone, hundreds of locals have been kidnapped at Ungwan Makeri, Idon town, Idon Hanyi, Agunu Dutse (not far from ACADA barracks in Kachia), Sabon Gari Kufana in Kajuru, among others, in the neighbouring Kajuru and Kachia local government areas.
