How Herdsmen Kidnapped My Sister, 2-Year-Old Baby In Nasarawa – Victim’s Sibling

Suspected herdsmen recently invaded the family house of one Zipporah Ahgu in Lafia, Nasarawa State, where her sister and two-year-old baby were abducted.

The assailants, numbering five, who were reportedly armed with “knives, machetes and 2 Ak47 guns”, invaded the low-fenced residence at about 00:26 am on September 21, after breaking through the door.

Ahgu, who resides in Abuja with her family, narrated the incident to THE WHISTLER in a phone conversation. 

“It all happened on Tuesday, September 21 at about 00.26 am just after midnight, I received a call from my youngest sister that Fulani gunmen had broken into my mum’s house. Five of them kidnapped my sister with her 2-year-old baby.

“I couldn’t ask questions because my sister was crying and highly traumatized. She was the one that was first picked but she escaped after a long fight.

“By the time she got help and came back, our other sister and her baby had been kidnapped. The men were five in number with knives, machetes and 2 Ak47 guns,” she told THE WHISTLER.

Ahgu disclosed that the kidnappers whipped her sister as they journeyed from one local government to another, through bushes and rivers on foot, before she was finally allowed to go at about 4 am the same day.

She told our reporter, “I called home around 6.30 am and my cousin said my sister just walked into the house.  She just pushed the broken door and stepped in

“I started shouting and crying loudly and thanking God for his mercies and his love.

“When we asked her what happened, she said after walking and being whipped from one local government to the next, in the Bush, across several rivers and rice farms, the leader suddenly asked her to go because she had her baby with her.

“So, they showed her the way out of the bush”.

Ahgu further disclosed that the kidnappers told her sister that they only needed money.

When asked about the current state of her sister, Aghu said, “She is currently seeing a doctor because she is in trauma”.

She noted that within the period her sister was captured, the family could only hope on God for her safe return because she had only come for a visit with her child.

She, however, wondered why their house was invaded: “They must have been monitoring the house. Maybe they saw a house that the fence is low or a car that looks nice. The fence isn’t so high, or they must have observed only women come out of there or I don’t know”.

The country has continued to witness a spate of kidnapping across the country as families reportedly continue to pay huge ransoms to captors of their beloved ones.