No fewer than 15 persons, including a staff member of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, were abducted by gunmen at the 1,000 Housing Estate along Pegi community in the Kuje Area Council of the FCT, Abuja on Sunday.
The chairman of Pegi Residents Association, Taiwo Aderibigbe, disclosed the development to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday.
Aderibigbe said one of the abducted persons is a staff member of the FCT Department of Development Control under the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council.
He said, “Gunmen abducted 15 persons along the abandoned 14km Pegi Road. Among those kidnapped was one Shuaibu Musa, a worker with the FCTA.
“We also observed that the husband of the woman who sells second-hand clothes at the main entrance to the estate was among the people kidnapped while they were returning from work.
“The kidnappers have not contacted the families of those abducted at the moment, but we are still trying to identify other abducted residents.
Responding to an inquiry by journalists on Tuesday, the Director of the FCT Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, said, “The kidnap incident is true. One of our drivers, Shuaibu Musa, was among the abductees, and he is yet to be released.”
But the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, in a statement, denied knowledge of the kidnap.
Adeh said, “After an extensive investigation, including intelligence-led information gathering, the police have found no evidence of such an incident.
“This is further supported by the fact that no victim or families of victims have come forward with any information or evidence of a kidnapping.”
