Rev. Dauda Bature, Pastor of ECWA Church Nariya, Kaduna State, was kidnapped and killed by bandits at his farm.
Late Rev. Dauda Bature was kidnapped by bandits on the 8th of November, 2021, while on his farm, not far from the Rigasa Train station in Kaduna state, according to Rev. Joseph John Hayab, Vice President, Northern States and Abuja of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
Later, the criminals demanded a ransom, which Rev. Dauda’s wife accepted and delivered to the bandits.
“They also kidnapped her,” Hayab explained. The bandits released the wife on November 18th and killed the husband a few days later.
Rev. Joseph John Hayab, who is also the Chairman of CAN in Kaduna State, urged security agents to increase their efforts in protecting lives and property, emphasizing that collecting ransom and then killing the victim is an inhumane crime that must be denounced.
Meanwhile, locals of a Kaduna neighborhood were forced to flee for their lives as security forces and invading bandits engaged in a gunfight, which resulted in the shooting of a pregnant woman.
The woman was taken to an unnamed hospital while pregnant.
Journalists are still waiting for the police to respond. Security agents “repelled the rampaging hoard of bandits that attempted to invade the community in the early hours of Saturday morning, December 11, 2021,” the neighbors said.
“The loud shots of different types of firearms rented the air from past midnight to almost 3 am. Three persons who were abducted from the community were later freed after military and JTF engaged them in gunfire.”
“A woman among the freed was, however, wounded by a gunshot. She is said to have been taken to an undisclosed hospital.”
“Thousands of residents, including men, women, and children took to the streets, with some just covered by their underwear.”
“A residence was seen up in flames at about the same time, the bandits dug a hole through the fence, gained access, and set the house ablaze before they fled.”
The neighborhood has been generally safe, with only one kidnapping reported almost two years ago in December 2021, when a returnee from the United States and two of his brothers were kidnapped.
However, sources reported a mother and two of her children were kidnapped from Oil Village, which shares a border with Sabo GRA, at the same time.
A day before, in the early hours of Friday, sources stated a security operative, his wife, and infant were kidnapped in Ungwan Bulus, a village on the western axis of Sabo GRA.
However, people were spotted going about their daily business in the Sabo GRA, even as stern-looking combat-ready security officials continued to monitor the area.
