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Insecurity: Bandits abduct 5 traders in Niger

Five traders were abducted by armed bandits on Thursday along Beji-Manta Road in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. In a live radio programme monitored by our Correspondent, an eyewitness, who identified himself simply as Umar, called in to brief the Secretary to the Niger State Government, Ahmed Matane, of the abduction. Umar added that he called in to inform the SSG of the situation because the security agencies in the state were unaware of the abduction, adding that as a result, no move had been made to rescue the victims. Findings have it that the people were waylaid and abducted on their way from the weekly market by the bandits and whisked away to an unknown destination. In his response, the SSG affirmed that there had been several incidents of underreported abductions in the state, saying that most cases were not reported through the conventional channels.

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