Unknown Gunmen Kidnap Nursing Mother, Lock Up 3 Children

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi

Unknown gunmen in the early hours of yesterday stormed Birshin Fulani, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis and kidnapped a nursing mother of three children, Mrs. Rukayyat Odedoyin.

THISDAY checks revealed that, the kidnappers who were about 10 stormed the area at about 12a.m. and forced themselves into the building, broke the main door before gaining entrance into the house and went away with the woman whose husband had just been transferred to Kaduna.

According to one of the neighbours who pleaded anonymity, “at about 12 midnight, we started hearing sporadic gunshots from different directions around our house. We woke up and thought of having cover.”

She added that, “we then heard people jumping the fence trying to gain entrance into the house of our neighbour. They were there from 12 midnight to 1.30a.m. By the time we came out, they had left with the woman leaving behind her three children as you can see.”

Another neighbour, Usman Baba told THISDAY that, “We just heard movement of people on motorbikes and thereafter gunshots from different directions then later towards the house of the woman who was kidnapped.”

A colleague of the husband, Ade Aremu said that, “I was called by my colleague who is in Kaduna that his family was in danger, that I should go and see what the situation was. When I got there, I discovered that she had been kidnapped leaving behind the 3 kids.”

The State Police Command was yet to confirm the kidnapping as the PPRO did not pick up the phone when his line was called by our Correspondent as at 9a.m. yesterday.