Residents Protest Kidnapping, Block Abuja-Kaduna Expressway

Residents of Gonin-Gora in the troubled Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on Thursday, blocked the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, while protesting the kidnap of an undisclosed number of people in the area.

The residents stormed the highway protesting and urging the government to do something over the incessant attacks by bandits in the area.

According to an eyewitness, kidnappers, on Wednesday night through the early hours of Thursday, attacked the community, kidnapping an unspecified number of the residents.

The Kaduna State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, also confirmed the incident but declined further comment.

According to an eyewitness,“The hoodlums operated uninterrupted for over four hours without any security operatives in sight. This forced the residents to come out this morning to protest the incident.

“We were woken up by gunshots as the bandits entered the community shooting indiscriminately. Several residents were taken away to an unknown destination by the heavily armed attackers that invaded the area,” the eyewitness who is also a resident of the area, said.

The Joint Task Force of security operatives were deployed to the scene to ease traffic flow.