Bandits have killed two people and abducted the mother of a member of the Niger state House of Assembly, Barrister Bello Ahmed Agwara, and demanded 100 million ransom.
Blueprint gathered that the 78-year-old Hajia Salamatu Ahmadu was abducted at about 9:00pm on Thursday night when some heavily armed gunmen riding on four motorcycles raided the country home of the Peoples Democratic Party member in Agwara town.
According to eyewitnesses, the bandits were armed with different types of weapons including AK-47 rifles.
They were said to have stormed the town shooting sporadically as the residents ran for safety.
The bandits also reportedly rustled some cattle.
A very senior official of the House of Assembly who did not want his name in print when contacted confirmed the story, saying that “we have gone to his house in Minna to commiserate with him.”
It was learnt that the bandits had already made contact with the legislator demanding N100 mission ransom.
All efforts to contact Alhaji Bello proved abortive as he did not pick his calls or respond to text messages.
The state Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, could not be reached for confirmation of the story.
