Residents of Chukuku community in Kuje Area Council last week, took to the streets to protest the frequent and unrestrained attacks by kidnappers who have allegedly abducted more than 30 people from the community since January.
The protest came on the heels of last Wednesday’s night raid of several houses by over 20 heavily armed kidnappers who allegedly abducted a woman and two men from the community.
Angry youths, last Thursday, blocked the only access road to the community setting bonfire and carrying placards with inscriptions like “Government should provide security for Chukuku community.”
The agrarian community is about one-hour drive from the city centre and sits on the Gwagwalada-Kuje road.
A resident of the area said one person had already been killed in previous kidnap raid, yet government fails to commission the already constructed police station in Chukuku.
According to the resident who preferred not to be mentioned, the police patrol team failed to respond to calls from local vigilantes and residents. He added that farmers were also kidnapped from their fields a week earlier.
The residents, therefore, called for a military checkpoint at Chukuku’s road leading to Kwali which has been the entry point for the kidnappers.
Recall that a pastor with the Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, Rev Yohana Joshua, and two sons of Danladi Bulus a former secretary of the Local Education Authority Kuje Area Council were abducted few days ago.
The two abducted siblings are Felix Bulus and Victor Bulus, they were kidnapped on Tuesday at Godoji community of the council.
This is the third time within two years that kidnappers would attack the ex-education secretary.
The former LEA secretary Danladi Bulus, who confirmed the latest incident in a telephone conversation said the incident happened around 12 am.
Bulus said he was told that the kidnappers came in their large numbers gained access into his house by breaking the fence, noting that he was not home when they attacked.
He further said the kidnappers proceeded to the pastor’s house and also whisked him away.
“No contact has been established with the kidnappers,” he stated.
The FCT Police Command was contacted through the FCT Command PPRO, DSP Josephine Adeh who did not take her calls.
She, however, wrote on the FCT Police WhatsApp group that “normalcy has since been restored.”
