Several passengers were abducted on Saturday evening after gunmen suspected to be bandits attacked motorists on a highway in Zamfara State.

A witness disclosed this on Saturday, adding that the gunmen hijacked the vehicles before abducting the occupants.

“Few hours ago, bandits blocked the Damri to Bakura road in Zamfara State, abducting all passengers from two fully loaded vehicles,” a social media user, DanKatsina50, disclosed on his page.

“It's alarming that terrorists can put blockade on a road in broad daylight without any fear. The northwest region of Nigeria has become a web of terror.”

Zamfara is one of states in the Northern region plagued by criminals known as bandits who raid and loot villages, kill residents and burn houses to the ground.

The gangs maintain camps in a huge forest straddling the state, Katsina, Kaduna, and Niger states, and have carried out mass kidnappings of students from schools in recent years.

In 2019, the state government under former governor and current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, had entered a peace agreement with the gunmen.

But despite the accord, communities in the state were frequently attacked and residents kidnapped and/or killed.

Loverofpeace:
Hausa/Fulani killing and kidnapping each other but arfonjarrs no go condemn am but if they hear sit at home na wahala.

zombieHUNTER:


This is not time for unserious talk

Every sane Nigerian should be asking for Tinubu's resignation

It's enough
The man got nothing to offer

phorget:
Toh

Xxxxtentacion2:
he has a lot to offer.
Death and suffering is what Tinubu offers Nigerians in abundance.
I wish only his supporters will bear the consequences of his bad leadership.
Maybe by the time Helinues is kidnapped along ibadan expressway then he will have sense to stop supporting bad leaders.

zombieHUNTER:


If you think zombies don't feel the negative impact of Tinubu's administration, you are mistaken my friend.

They support Tinubu out of pure hate for others

iwaeda:


Are they not queueing for expensive fuel now.

Loverofpeace:
Hausa/Fulani killing and kidnapping each other but arfonjarrs no go condemn am but if they hear sit at home na wahala.