Gunmen have reportedly abducted 23 persons in the Kawu community, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, among whom is a former Ward Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Hassan Sidi Kawu.

The gunmen numbering about 40 was said to have stormed the community which shares boundaries with Kaduna and Niger states, in the early hours of Thursday.

The city centre have witnessed a wave of abduction in recent time which prompted Nyesom Wike, the minister of FCT to admit the city was insecure.

The councillor representing the community, who is also the Deputy Speaker in the council, Abdulmumini Zakari, told newsmen that the gunmen arrived the community on Wednesday, from the Kuyeri Forest in Kaduna State.

He added that among the gunmen’s victims were the wife and son of the District Head, Alhaji Abdurrahman Danjuma Ali, alongside a former Ward Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party and his four children.

“They divided themselves into groups and some went into the palace of the District Head, Alhaji Abdurrahman Danjuma Ali, where they abducted his son, Lukman, and his wife, who he married two weeks ago. Others attacked the compound of Alhaji Alhassan Sidi Kawu, the Marafa of Kawu and a former PDP Chairman of Kawu Ward. They abducted him along with his four children.”

The bandits also reportedly went into the compound of Sarkin Pawan Kawu, Gambo Pawa, and abducted him alongside his two wives and some children.