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BANDITS, who attacked Kwakwashi community in Niger State, killed one and abducted 13 persons, have made contact with the families of the abducted persons.
The PUNCH had reported that the bandits numbering about 30 arrived in the community around midnight last Thursday and shot indiscriminately into the air while the operation lasted.
Speaking with our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday, a community leader, Aliu Muhammed, said the victims’ families were contacted on Saturday, adding that the ransom varied.
Muhammed put the total of the ransom being demand at over N100m.
He said, “They have called all the families of the people who were kidnapped and asked for ransom.
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Many of the bandits, DAILY POST gathered, escaped with serious gun injuries, leaving behind their motorcycles.
The mobile policemen were those stationed at Garkogo town after persistent attacks on the people by the bandits in recent time.
DAILY POST also learnt that the bandits shot and killed a villager before the policemen appeared at the scene and engaged them in the fight at about 3:30 in the morning on Saturday.
The success is coming barely three weeks after bandits launched an attack on the camp of the Joint Security Taskforce and klled five soldiers and one Civil Defence Officer at Allawa.
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They were apprehended at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The Agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, confirmed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi disclosed that the the two suspects excreted 191 pellets of heroin and cocaine while under observation.
“During the outward screening of passengers on Ethiopian airline to Italy, NDLEA operatives at Lagos airport intercepted and referred one Chukwudi Destiny for scanning and the scan result proved positive to drug ingestion.
“Consequently, the suspect was placed under excretion observation and in the process; he excreted 92 pellets of Heroin with a total weight of 1.300kg,” he said.