Armed bandits have reportedly attacked Kaduna village, popularly known as Danhonu 2, and kidnapped several residents yet to be fully accounted for, barely 3 days after releasing Kurmin Wali, who kidnapped church worshippers.
An eyewitness account, however, alleged that the bandit attack was happening for the tenth time in the village located around Millennium City, Chikun LGA, of the state, where a photojournalist was recently kidnapped.
SpaceTimes online media reported that the bandits are gaining more control over the small village, as residents are fleeing the area to places where they feel safer.
The attack occurred in the early hours of Monday morning, February 9th, 2026, when bandits stormed the village in large numbers, armed with weapons, and kidnapped a housewife and a nurse who ran a medicine shop in the area with her children, and forcefully took them into the forest where they operate.
According to the SpaceTimes, “For the tenth time, a village in the Chikun local government area of Kaduna state has been attacked by bandits.”
“In what looks like an organised crime by the perpetrators and their unknown sponsors, the little village in the Kaduna state Millennium City has been turned into a ghost village.
“The deadly gangsters are now in control of the village, and the residents are living in fear.
“In early January, a retired photojournalist, Mallam Umar Usman Iyale, was whisked away from his residence at the village to an unknown place.
“Despite the alleged payment of the demanded amount of money as ransom, the elderly man remains in the kidnappers’ hands, and no one can tell of his condition as of the time of this report.
“On Monday early morning, February 9, 2026, the daredevils stormed the village again in large numbers and armed to commit the kidnapping of a housewife and a nurse who ran a Medicine shop in the area with her children forcefully took them into the evil forest where they operate and have a country of their own
“Another family, a husband who is an IT engineer, his wife, a tertiary school teacher who owns a private school in the area, and their children were among those kidnapped this Monday morning,” it reported.
It also reported that “What makes the incessant kidnapping in the area suspicious, according to a resident of the area, is the one set of people that were allegedly the target.”
“Another resident of the area who doesn’t want his name in print said he escaped the attack by luck, as the hoodlums went to his house but missed him.
“Many of the residents who spoke to this reporter said many people have started packing away from the village because of fear, as the Uba Sani government has abandoned them to their fate.
“Since the year 204, the Danhonu 2 village has not known peace, and the situation has turned the area close to the main road into a ghost place.”
“As of yesterday, Monday, the whole village has turned into a grave, as residents do not know where to go and who can become the next target of the society dregs.
“The government should show interest in these developments, as the criminals are becoming uncontrollable and are only waiting for any slight opportunities to attack other areas surrounding the Danhonu 2 village,” a leader in the village said.
“In the early morning yesterday, the whole village’s residents moved to the nearest Divisional Police office, where they lodged their protest.
“They have been directed to the state police command to meet the police commissioner and present their problems and grievances to the highest authority, who will forward the protest to the state government,” this reporter learnt.
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Recalled that Kaduna’s successive state governors of the state have been paid or settled with bandits to stop killing in Southern Kaduna and/or drop their arms to be assimilated as repentants from Birnin Gwari recently.
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