“Preliminary investigations revealed that, around 18:05 (17:05 GMT), suspected armed herders stormed the village and opened fire indiscriminately”, detailed in a statement sent to Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, spokesperson for the Kwara State Police, where the affected town, Isapa, is located.
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“A woman was shot in the leg, but has already been treated and discharged. Subsequent investigations by the officers confirmed that ten people were kidnapped during the attack,” he added. A large-scale search operation has been launched, including Police tactical teams and members of the local community to track down the kidnappers and victims. A community leader who wanted to be identified only by his first name, Ajasa, also confirmed the facts to EFE and detailed that about twenty attackers burst in shooting in Isapa before kidnapping the neighbors in their homes. “Many residents ran to the forest to avoid being kidnapped. Unfortunately, 15 people, including a pregnant woman and two breastfeeding mothers, were captured by the bandits”, stated the local leader. “We had never experienced anything like this before this incident. Isapa had been a peaceful place. We never imagined that it would happen to us (…) Now everyone lives in fear and many people have fled the town,” she added. Isapa is located near the town of Ekuru, where 38 parishioners were kidnapped on November 18 when armed men attacked the Apostolic Church of Christ (CAC, for its acronym in English) and remained captive until they were released on Sunday night. That attack occurred when the temple was celebrating a mass, which was interrupted by individuals firing indiscriminately and who killed at least two people before kidnapping the survivors, including the priest. Some states in Nigeria, especially in the center and northwest of the country, suffer constant attacks by bandits, a term used to name criminal gangs that commit assaults and mass kidnappings for ransom, which the authorities sometimes call “terrorists”. Adding to this insecurity is the activity of the jihadist group Boko Haram since 2009 in the northeast of the country and, from 2016, of its splinter group, the Islamic State, in the West Africa Province (ISWAP).
