Kidnapping series: Another 87 people kidnapped in Nigeria

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MP Usman Danlami, who represents the district in the state, told news agency DPA. According to Danlami, further attacks kidnapped a total of 75 people from two villages in Kajuru the week before, and 287 girls and boys from a school in neighboring Chikun district in early March.

Despite the deployment of security forces, no hostages were rescued or those behind the attack arrested. Armed criminal groups are suspected to be behind the spate of kidnappings in Kaduna.

In the north and center of Africa’s most populous country, with more than 220 million inhabitants, both criminal gangs and Islamist terrorist groups repeatedly kidnap people. Almost exactly ten years ago, in April 2014, the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by the Islamist militia Boko Haram in Chibok in the northeastern state of Borno caused worldwide horror.

Boko Haram and other jihadist groups, which are waging a violent campaign to impose strict Islamic rule in Nigeria, mainly want to use the kidnappings to make political demands. The gangs, on the other hand, are typically interested in extorting ransoms or securing the release of their captured members.

Boko Haram is also blamed for another mass kidnapping of more than 200 internally displaced persons, mainly women and children, in Borno state in early March. Shortly afterwards, gunmen attacked an Islamic school in Sokoto State, taking away fifteen children.

(SDA)

Source: Blick