Bandits Kill Soldier, Abduct Zimbabwean, 1 Other In Kaduna

Bandits in large numbers invaded a farm in Anchau town of Kubau local government area of Kaduna State at the weekend, killed a soldier and abducted two officials of the farm.

LEADERSHIP gathered that one of the civilians abducted is a Zimbabwean national while the other is a Nigerian.

It was gathered that the bandits had entered an agreement after multi-million naira levy on Kaduna farmers to allow them farm had been breached.

The bandits according to a source invaded the company around 1:30pm on Wednesday.
‎A vigilante member working in the community identified the Zimbabwean as Mr Charles Choko.
‎“They bandits attacked and killed a soldier working in the farm any and also Kidnapped one Mr Charles Choko from Zimbabwe and one Yusuf Aliyu Bello from Kano state,” he said.
A local who pleaded anonymity disclosed that he saw a team of security agencies on Friday ‎going into the nearby bush in search of the abducted victims.
The chairman of the local government, Basher Suleiman Zuntu, failed to pick up his calls to react to the incident.
‎Kaduna State police spokesman, DSP Muhammed Jalige, did not respond to calls at the time of filing this report.