Some suspected gunmen have again attacked residential estates in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to kidnap victims in exchange for ransom.
Reports revealed that the incident occurred on Monday morning.
According to eye witness account, the hitherto peaceful estate was thrown into panic mode when sounds of sporadic gunshot suddenly rent the airwaves at about quarter past midnight.
Reports gathered that the sporadic gunshots lasted for hours shattering the calm and jolting residents from their sleep before the assailants were repelled by the combined team of the estate security and a back up from the police, preventing them from moving to the next house to abduct more victims.
The eye witness told our correspondent that a young man managed to escape being kidnapped with severe injuries to his right arm sustained from matchete attack, but his mother was not so lucky as she and one other person were taken along with the assailants.
This attack came just barely 5 days after a similar incidence in nearby ACO Estate where the attackers killed one gateman and abducted two residents.
Report has it that mother and daughter were taken away, and one casualty recorded as suspected kidnappers invaded ACO Estate in Sabon-Lugbe axis, in the early hour of Wednesday.
Amal Pepple Estate situated off the Kiyami village road near the Abuja Centenary City is the second estate along the Lugbe/airport road axis to taste the sour offering of these men of the underworld in the space of five days.
The renewed wave of attacks has again called to question the efficacy of the security architecture in the Federal Capital Territory even as Abuja residents called on the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike and heads of security agencies to double their efforts to curtail the situation.
This ugly development also calls for Abuja residents to be more vigilant and security conscious and put measures in place to improve their own security to compliment the efforts of the government security agencies.
