Monday, May 5, 2025 - A family of three, and four others have reportedly been abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in the Ivbiaro community in Owan East Local Government Area.
The family members were traveling with the other four
victims who are their family friends from Kaduna State to the community to
attend the 40-day fidau payer of a late mother-in-law.
The kidnapped family members were a father, mother, and a
son, while the driver escaped into the bush.
It was gathered that the victims were on Thursday kidnapped,
a few meters from the community along the Auchi-Warrake road, at a bad spot not
too far from security checkpoint on the road.
A source close to the victims said the family chartered the
vehicle from Kaduna State to the community to attend the program slated for
Saturday, May 3, 2025.
The source who spoke on condition of anonymity said, the
kidnappers, however, abandoned a mother and her two children and held the other
four hostages.
He alleged that the mother and her two children were
abandoned because of the cries of her children.
He said the suspected kidnappers later released the father
of the family, simply identified as Mallam Nezifi, his wife, while his son, a
female friend who was also accompanying them to the community for the prayers
were, however, taken into captivity.
He added that the kidnappers are demanding the sum of N10
million ransom.
He said the development has thrown the entire community into
confusion as the prayers could no longer take place.
The family is reported to be doing everything possible to
get the ransom to free the abducted victims.
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