House Owners Abandon Homes In Kaduna As Kidnappers Go On Rampage

• ” I put all my energy, resources to build a befitting residence after my retirement from the oil company. Now, Kidnappers have created fear in me. I have to rent a two-room apartment, somewhere within the town where my family and I sleep.”

Hundreds of house owners on the outskirt of Kaduna including Refinery staff, Central Bank of Nigeria staff and other notable companies’ staff in Kaduna, including businessmen and women who spent millions of Naira to build mansions along the Kakau, Federal Housing, Goni Gora new layout in Kaduna have packed out of their homes to locations which are more secured and safe.

It is reported that some homeowners have allegedly sold their houses and vacated the area while some have abandoned their buildings to rent two bedrooms in other areas for safety reasons.

Reports indicate that most kidnapping incidents in Kaduna city and its environs happen mostly at night when residents return home from work, as a result, most people who would not want to abandon their homes completely, rent rooms in town where they sleep with their families and return home by day to their routine.

A retiree of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Moses Atugan a resident of the troubled area, said ” I put all my energy, resources to build a befitting residence after my retirement from the oil company. Now, Kidnappers have created fear in me. I have to rent a two-room apartment, somewhere within the town where my family and I sleep.”

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Another resident of the troubled area, Engineer Moses Adole who wept over the kidnap of his only son said, “my only son was Kidnapped three months ago. I paid a huge amount of money before he was released. They came in the night looking for me. But I wasn’t in the house. So they took my son away. Since then, I decided to move to Barnawa where I rented a room.”

“They have come several times looking for me, but as luck may have it, on such occasions, I may have travelled out of the state. So, the last time they came, they couldn’t find me, but took my only son away.”

Kidnapping according to residents has become a business venture in Kaduna as families of victims are made to pay huge amounts of money for ransom before their relatives are released.

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