According to a report by Daily Trust, residents of the community said the bandits called the families of the victims to inform them that the captives were with them and working on their millet and sorghum plantations. However, the abductors have not demanded ransom yet.
Bandits who abducted 44 congregants from a mosque in Zamfara community last Friday have sent the victims to work on their farmland.
According to a report by Daily Trust, residents of the community said the bandits called the families of the victims to inform them that the captives were with them and working on their millet and sorghum plantations. However, the abductors have not demanded ransom yet.
One of the residents of the community, Abubakar Bukkuyum, quoted a bandit as saying, “Our millet plantations are due for harvest and the captives must do the work for us.”
Last Friday, some bandits abducted dozens of worshippers from a Central Juma’at Mosque in Zugu community.
Zugu is in the Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
According to the accounts of residents, the armed men hid their guns inside their clothes and stormed the mosque when the Imam was about to start delivering his sermon.
The assailants reportedly asked people on the premises of the mosque to get inside.
“No one saw them with guns and many people mistook them as worshippers. Nobody paid attention to them because they hid their guns.
“However, shortly after they moved inside the mosque, they brought out the rifles and fired some shots as a warning.
“They herded the congregants into the bush but some of the worshippers managed to scramble out of the mosque to safety. The muezzin was among those kidnapped but the Imam was able to escape the assault.
“Some of those who were outside the mosque were also abducted," the resident narrated.
Giving an update on the incident, the Zamfara State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu, told journalists that the police have begun moves to rescue the abductees.