Return Of Bandits Along Abuja-Kaduna Road A National Shame — Arewa Forum

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has frowned at the resurgence of attacks and kidnappings along the Kaduna-Abuja road, describing it as a national shame.

The ACF in a statement by its spokesman, Emmanuel Yawe, on Monday, condemned the killing of Alhaji Hamidu Sagir, a retired Director of Protocol at the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) and a governorship aspirant in Zamfara State, on Sunday.

He described the heinous act as “completely unacceptable.”

Allnews reported how Sagir was said to have been killed by bandits along the Kaduna-Abuja road while several others were abducted.

The ACF also lamented that Nigerians are being terrorised, kidnapped and killed daily, without being let on the road, noting that both the Kaduna state and the federal government  appear to be helpless in securing the lives on this road.

‘’The ACF is becoming agitated by the unrestrained acts of terrorism on the strategic highway between Abuja the Federal Capital and Kaduna the former capital of the defunct northern region,’’ said the statement.

"Daily Nigerians are being terrorised, kidnapped and killed on this road. This is a national shame and completely unacceptable to our forum.

“The latest victim of this act of terror is Hamidu Sagir, a retired Director of Protocol at the Federal Capital Development Authority FCDA and a governorship aspirant in Zamfara State who was shot and killed at Rijana.

“Indeed Rijana has become a popular spot where these terrorist attacks are committed on a daily and routine basis.

"This is a challenge that the security agencies must overcome. We are worried that every day Nigerians are attacked at this same spot and our security men seem helpless in sorting out the security problems that make such attacks on the same spot easy.”

The forum called on both the Kaduna state and the federal governments to save Nigerians from this security nightmare.

The statement condoled with the immediate family of the slain Hamidu Sagir and the Zamfara state Government and prayed Almighty God to give them the fortitude to bear the tragedy.