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The current economic reality being faced by Nigerians may have spread to the forests where criminal elements reside as kidnappers and bandits now demand bags of rice, cartons of noodles, bread and other food items as part of the conditions to free their captives.
It has been revealed that the level of deteriorating security situation bedeviling the entire nation at the moment may not be unconnected to the current hardship in the land birthed by high cost of living as prices of essential commodities in the market have continued to skyrocket.
Recently, abductors of some residents of Kiyi and Anguwar Hausawa community in Kuje and Abaji area councils of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, told members of the families of their hostages to include food items in the ransom.
Eyewitnesses tell
Pulse that the attack occurred in the early hours of Easter Monday, April 5, 2021.
Heavy gunfire rang round the areas, social media users say, amid sundry reports that hundreds of inmates are now on the run. It is unclear at the time of reporting if there have been any casualties.
Imo State has been the hotbed of a duel between the Eastern Security Network (ESN) the militant arm of separatist IPOB and Nigerian security forces.
Nigeria Police spokesperson, Pulse reached out to him.
This is a developing story and we will furnish our readers with more details in subsequent news items as soon as we have them.
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