Uja villagers flee as bandits kill 1, steal motorcycles
esidents of Adagba community in Yaba ward of Abaji Area Council of the FCT have fled homes after bandits went on age, killing a 23-year-old man, Mai Gyada, and stealing 36 cycles.
bandits were said to have bducted seven residents of the unity among who are Aisha , Mustapha Lawal, Ali Patchi, ala and Jamilu Yahaya. ly Trust report that the attack barely a week after bandits ed the community and abducted pkeeper seller, Chinedu Arinze, rted foodstuff from the shop. esident of Adagba, Garba Shehu, speaking with our reporter, said ndits numbering over 100 with ticated weapons invaded the unity around 9pm on Saturday, d themselves into groups, d from house to house while ng into the air and made away motorcycles, other valuables and
r reporter who visited the unity on Sunday at about 9am llagers in their numbers moving the community carrying luggage ir heads.
madaki of Adagba, Adamu ai, who spoke with our reporter, the entire community was ed due to the gunshots. said, “In fact, it was God that two of my children as they t drowned while crossing the Gurara to escape. My family slept inside the forest till this morning before we came back home.”
The vice chairman of Abaji Area Council, a native of Adagba, Abubakar Abdullahi, said the bandits also tried to whisk away his father but that he was spared after the bandits discovered he could not walk due to age.
“They (bandits) went away with my cousin (brother) and later released him after they asked him to show them the road to Kapako village in Niger State.
Commenting on the attack, the Etsu Yaba, His Royal Highness (HRH), Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, expressed shock and sadness.
Alhaji Abdullahi said his chiefdom was prone to bandits’ attacks because it shared borders with Niger State.
He said he always raised the issue at security meetings with the FCT minister, Muhammad Musa Bello, on the need to establish a military base in the area in order to checkmate any form of crime.
He expressed concern over the mass exit of people from Adagba community to neighbouring villages, even as he said the attacks might also hamper farming activities in his chiefdom.
The spokesperson of the FCT police command, DSP Adeh Josephine, could not be reached via her mobile phone and did not reply to an SMS on the issue.