Global Voice
Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped around 100 people, including women and children, in two weekend attacks in Kaduna state, residents and police said early this week.
Residents said armed men dressed in army uniform arrived in the village undetected because they had parked their motorbikes away from the village.
Some residents have decided to flee the region due to security concerns, the report said.Gunmen are known to force-march their victims deep into the bush, holding them for up to months while awaiting ransom payments.The abductions come after an armed gang seized 286 students and staff from a school in early March in Kuriga in Kaduna state and gunmen seized 61 people on March 12 in Buda community.
n Dogon Noma, another community in Kajuru local government area, gunmen abducted 16 people from their homes in an attack on Saturday night, residents said.Local resident Daniel Shamang said they had not heard anything from the abductors or the missing villagers.Kidnappings at schools in Nigeria were first carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram, who seized more than 200 students from a girls’ school in Chibok in Borno state a decade ago.
Ninety eight girls are still being held by Boko Haram and a slew of abductions have taken place since, revealing the utter failure of the Nigerian authorities .
Boko Haram has also been known to kidnap girls, whom it believes should not be educated, and use them as cooks or sex slaves.
