Bandits on Wednesday abducted 10 people in the Moriki community, Zurmi local government area of Zamfara State.
A resident of the community confirmed the incident on the BBC Hausa Service on Thursday.
He said: “The bandits claimed that their cows were killed by the commander in the community. They attacked the community and went from house to house picking our people. They gave today as the deadline for us to pay a ransom of N50 million.
” Not long ago, they collected N20 million from community members to allow the locals access to their farms. The community is not secured at all.”
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The spokesman for the state police command, Yazid Abubakar, also confirmed the incident.
He said the state’s commissioner of police had ordered the operatives to rescue the victims unhurt.
Zamfara and other states in the North-West part of Nigeria have been under the bandits’ siege since 2019 with hundreds of people killed and thousands of others, including school children, kidnapped during the period.
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