A team of security personnel, made up of army, police and vigilante raced promptly to distress call of the residents of Hajiya Zahra extension in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) today to dislodge gunmen suspected to be kidnappers.
Information reaching us at Greenbarge Reporters online newspaper and hardcopy magazine today, July 28, said that the gunmen engaged the security team in ceaseless gun battle from about 12 midnight when they arrived, to about 2.00am. They were said to kidnapped a woman, a man and a boy of about 15 years old.
It was learnt that the gunmen succeeded in hitting and woundind one of the residents that was caught in the cross firing, but that the victim did not die.
“The man is now responding to treatment in Kuje General hospital,” a resident, who pleaded to remain unanimous told our reporter.
Hajiya Zahra extension is a sprawling community, directly opposite the Government Secondary School in Kuje.
As at the time of going public, no official statement has been released from the security team, though a police officer who preferred to remain unanimous confirmed the incidence.
He said that there was no serious casualty, saying that the team is on the trail of the criminals.
Meanwhile, the residents have commended the police, the army and vigilante for the dilident manner they treated the situation, “especially their prompt response to our distressed call.
“Only God knows the kind of havock the gunmen would have caused in the community if the security people had delayed in arriving in the community or if they had come ill prepared.”
