{"id":45870,"date":"2021-01-05T00:48:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=45870"},"modified":"2021-01-05T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:48:19","slug":"banditry-in-niger-yakila-community-remains-deserted-three-weeks-after-district-head-kidnap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/banditry-in-niger-yakila-community-remains-deserted-three-weeks-after-district-head-kidnap\/","title":{"rendered":"Banditry In Niger: Yakila Community Remains Deserted Three weeks After\u00a0District Head Kidnap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olabode Adaramola<\/p>\n

… as Gov. Abubakar\u00a0 Bello pays sympathy call , swears\u00a0 to rescue the embattled Traditional Chief<\/p>\n

Barely 15 days\u00a0 after the Kidnap of the District Head of Yakila in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulamid by Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits, the community has been deserted like a ghost town, with stalls\u00a0 and commercial outlets\u00a0 under lock and key.<\/p>\n

Some residents\u00a0 of the community were also said to have\u00a0 relocated from the community to neighbourhood communities for fear of further attacks by the fleeing hoodlums.<\/p>\n

National Wires learnt\u00a0 that at the time of the attack by the bandits some three weeks ago, the District Head, in conjunction with the\u00a0 Ward leader of the APC and a Staff Nurse\u00a0 at Garin-Gabas who was identified as Halima, as well as\u00a0 \u00a0her two little Children were kidnapped and have remained in the custody of their abductors\u00a0 since the unfortunate incidence occurred.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nBut when the State\u00a0 Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani\u00a0 Bello paid a condolence\u00a0 visit to the area on Monday, he met a deserted and almost a community bereft of the presence of human beings as virtually all the commercial outlets were closed down\u00a0 and business centres were locked up.<\/p>\n

It was further gathered that majority of the\u00a0 traders who were in the habits of displaying their article of trades by the road sides\u00a0 and other major streets in the community\u00a0 were nowhere to be seen around the community earlier noted for it’s hustling and bustling.<\/p>\n

Further checks revealed that\u00a0 some residents of the community who managed to stay back in the community, locked themselves inside their residential\u00a0 houses opting to take a look at the State\u00a0 Governor from the windows within their houses.<\/p>\n

This reporter who was on the convoy\u00a0 of the State Governor,Alhaji\u00a0 Abubakar Sani Bello\u00a0 during the visit also learnt\u00a0 \u00a0that the notorious armed\u00a0 bandits only spoke to leadership of the community once since the District Head was abducted adding that\u00a0 it was about two weeks ago that the incident happened .<\/p>

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According to the leaders of the community, the bandits have not contacted them again since the incident occurred, fueling fears that the kidnaped district Head may have been killed.<\/p>\n

One of the community leaders, an Alhaji who briefed the Governor on the unfortunate incident said “the last time they made contact with us was two weeks ago but they did not ask for anything”.<\/p>\n

He stated further that there was already apprehension in the community dwellers\u00a0 about the safety of the embattled\u00a0 District Sead, noting\u00a0 that “right now we don’t even know whether he has been killed or not “.<\/p>\n

But our reporter exclusively gathered from one of the community members who craved for anonymity in a brief chat that\u00a0 the bandits have actually demanded for a ransom of N4million.<\/p>\n

Addressing some members of the community in the kidnapped District Head’s Palace, the State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello said\u00a0 \u00a0the government has intelligence report that the bandits have informants among the people, stressing that the report was reinforced by the fact that less than 24 hours after the abduction of the District Head, had allegedly\u00a0 held a meeting designed to set up a local security outfit for the community, shortly after which the bandits struck.<\/p>\n

The Governor B thereby informed\u00a0 the people that they should join hands with the government to secure their community from the incessant banditry attack , saying,\u00a0 that “security is everybody’s business”.<\/p>\n

Governor Sani Bello also\u00a0 assured the people that government was on top of the situation, hilighting\u00a0 \u00a0that very soon the fleeing bandits would\u00a0 be arrested, prosecuted\u00a0 and\u00a0 be brought to Book.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barely 15 days\u00a0 after the Kidnap of the District Head of Yakila in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulamid by Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits, the community has been deserted like a ghost town, with stalls\u00a0 and commercial outlets\u00a0 under lock and key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[1074,7976],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-45870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crime","category-news","tag-anti-kidnapping-unit","tag-kidnapping-in-niger-state"],"yoast_head":"\nBanditry In Niger: Yakila Community Remains Deserted Three weeks After\u00a0District Head Kidnap - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barely 15 days\u00a0 after the Kidnap of the District Head of Yakila in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulamid by\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/banditry-in-niger-yakila-community-remains-deserted-three-weeks-after-district-head-kidnap\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banditry In Niger: Yakila Community Remains Deserted Three weeks After\u00a0District Head Kidnap - National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barely 15 days\u00a0 after the Kidnap of the District Head of Yakila in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulamid by\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/banditry-in-niger-yakila-community-remains-deserted-three-weeks-after-district-head-kidnap\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-04T23:48:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gov.-abubakar-sani-bello.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Friday Ekeoba\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\",\"name\":\"National Wire\",\"description\":\"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/banditry-in-niger-yakila-community-remains-deserted-three-weeks-after-district-head-kidnap\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gov.-abubakar-sani-bello.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gov.-abubakar-sani-bello.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"Niger State Gov. 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