Bandits raided some houses in Anguwar Maji, Jere town along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway, and kidnapped 22 villagers merely 24 hours after the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, visited the highway.
Jere is located on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway and shares a border with Tafa-Sabon-Wuse in Niger State.
A resident of Anguwar Maji, Shehu Bala, who confirmed the latest abduction on Monday, said the incident happened around 11pm on Sunday.
He said the bandits, who came in large numbers and wielding AK-47 rifles, invaded some houses and whisked away 22 residents, including five women.
“The bandits came in their large numbers as some of them wore army uniforms.
“They moved from house to house and woke their victims up before they marched them into the bush at gunpoint,” he said.
According to him, the bandits operated silently in the community for over an hour.
He added that they only started shooting sporadically to scare people from coming after them after leaving the community.
Bala, on the other hand, claimed that one of the 22 kidnapped victims escaped from his captors while being led into the bush.
At the time of filing this report, the spokesman for the Kaduna State Police Command, ASP Mohammed Jalinge, could not be reached to confirm the latest abduction.