Terrorists have reportedly kinapped several passengers along the Kaduna-Birnin-Gwari Road in Kaduna State after blocking the road for easy operations on Tuesday.
They also set ablaze eight vehicles in their wild operation on the highway while abducting an unspecified number of travellers, mostly women and children, to an unknown destination.
The Chairman of Birnin Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance, Ibrahim Nagwari, confirmed the attack in a statement.
According to Nawagwari, the terrorists took over the the Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna Highway by blocking it and started intercepting a convoy of motorists with security escorts between Kuriga and Manini, near Udawa where they left with an unspecified number of people into the bush.
Nagwari expressed concern that the gang that carried out the operation is now operating with the Ansaru terrorist group to declare war on the residents of Birnin-Gwari.
He stated that the government’s efforts to tackle the security threats have remained a mirage, adding that the people of the area should stop travelling through the Kaduna-Birnin-Gwari Highway until when the security situation there improved.
“We had always appreciated efforts of security personnel in their passion to curtail the security challenges bedevilling the Birnin-Gwari general area, but our people have reached a point of no return,”
Nagwari said.
According to him, it has become necessary that there’s the “need for the people of Birnin-Gwari and communities along the Kaduna-Birnin-Gwari Highway to halt with immediate effect travelling on this notorious highway until the security situation improves.
“This organisation hereby advises all our citizens to exercise maximum restraint and obey all rules of the land and seclude themselves in prayers for Allah’s intervention to deal with these terrorists and their collaborators within our communities.
“Equally, we pray for the safe return of our people, mostly women and children that were abducted,” he added.
The Kaduna State Police Command, is yet to react to the incident.
