Bandits abduct eight women in FCT

Gunmen have abducted eight women on a farm in Gwombe village, in Gwargwada Chiefdom, Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

This is coming barely 48 hours after gunmen abducted the father of the vice chairman of Kwali Area Council of the FCT, alongside six others in Yewuti village in Kwali.

According to a source, the incident happened around 5:00 pm on Monday.

He added that the women, all housewives, were harvesting benni seed when the gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles appeared and surrounded them.

A community leader, who pleaded anonymity, confirmed the abduction, stressing that four among the women are from one house.

He alleged, “I suspect that these gunmen that abducted our women are among those ones that escaped from neighbouring Kabbi village who were roaming inside the bush after Miyetti Allah vigilantes neutralised some of them over the weekend.”

The spokeswoman of the FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh, could not respond when contacted over the incident.