The Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, has disclosed that about 222 persons have been killed and 774 persons abducted by bandits in the state.
The commissioner, who stated this while presenting the second quarter security report on Tuesday, also said bandits raped 20 women between April and June 2021, while their injured victims amount to about 226 persons, including women and children.
He noted that 159 persons out of the total number killed were from Kaduna Central Senatorial zone in the Birnin Gwari, Giwa, Igabi, Chikun and Kajuru local government areas of the state.
According to the commissioner, 54 persons were killed in Southern Kaduna Senatorial Zone among them five women and four minors in the Jema’a, Kachia and Kauru LGA.
The Northern Senatorial Zone, he said, recorded nine deaths within the period, adding that among the number abducted were 239 women and 32 minors.
He also mentioned that 87 bandits were killed by security agencies and 24 suspects arrested by the Department of State Services.
He put the total number of cattle rustled by bandits at 8,553.
He added, “Insecurity, particularly in frontline communities, have threatened food security because most farmers in those communities have abandoned their farmlands for fear of being killed or kidnapped for ransom.”
