A group of armed bandits have reportedly attacked a Catholic seminary in Jama’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The seminary, St. Albert the Great Institute of Philosophy, which belongs to the Catholic church was attacked on Monday night by the assailants who whisked away a large number of students from the premises.
According to reports, the bandits stormed the theological school which is located at Fayit community, Kagoma Chiefdom in Kaduna.
During the attack, they shot sporadically to scare away residents.
The incident has not yet been confirmed by the Kaduna state police command.
The latest attack comes barely two weeks after the state government shut down all telecommunication serivces in the state.
The state government also banned the sale of petrol and the use of motorcycles in some areas.
Despite having a negative impact on residents as well as the bandits, the Kaduna state government maintains that it has recorded progress as a result of the ban, as bandits now ask for cooked food for ransom as starvation creeps into their hideouts.
Chronicle NG reported how bandits demanded for cooked food from a victim in Kaduna.
It was gathered that the hoodlums who operate around Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have reduced their activities as a result of the state ban on weekly markets as part of measures to tackle insecurity in the state.
The latest development was confirmed by a youth leader in one of the villages of Birnin Gwari, Babangida Yaro.
Yaro said that since the ban, bandits operating along Damari, Kutemashi and Kuyello villages only asked for cooked food each time they kidnapped people.
According to him, the ban on sale of fuel in filling stations located in rural communities had also helped to restrict their movement.
“There is relative peace around Damari, kuyello, Kutemashi because the bandits have stopped attacking our communities. They usually stay in the forest and seize food items mostly cooked ones from vendors,” he said.
Yaro revealed that on some occasions, if two or three persons are abducted, one is set free to source for food from the relatives as ransom as there is no communication network to make contact.
The youth leader added that Dogon Dawa area is still not completely safe because villagers are still scared of accessing their farmlands.
Babangida also lamented that the ban on use of private Motorcycles in the villages had increased hardship on the bandits as well as residents.
