Terrorists blocked the Kaduna-Zaria highway around Mawai village, also known as Gonar Magajin Gari, on Monday night, killing one traveler and abducting scores of others.
It is about 15 kilometres from Zaria.
This is just as Mrs Seriya Raji, mother of Abdulkarim Jamiu Asuku, Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, has been abducted by unidentified gunmen.
A source identified the victim killed along the Kaduna-Zaria highway as Alhaji Sani Dogara, who was heading to Kaduna from Zaria.
The terror gang were said to have operated unchallenged for almost three hours.
While the Kaduna State Police Command is yet to comment on the incident, an eyewitness confirmed that the bandits, who came in a convoy of vehicles, stationed them around Tudun Gaude village.
The source noted that the vehicles were used to evacuate their captives to an unknown destination.
“We were by the roadside when we noticed vehicles making abrupt U-turns on the lane to Kaduna from Zaria while other vehicles ran into the bush.”
“We also saw several motorists alighting from their vehicles in confusion and running on foot into bushes and we also ran,” the source said.
The eyewitness, however, said at the time they ran into the bush, there was no gunshot fired during the operation but confirmed that he later saw that one person had been shot on the hip.
Also, Mrs Seriya Raji, mother of Abdulkarim Jamiu Asuku, Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, was abducted when bandits invaded her residence in Adavi Local Government Area of the State on Monday night.
A source said the gunmen whisked her away moments after she observed her evening (Ishai) prayer in a mosque within the house located at Inese/Ovakere new layout in Nagazi community in Adavi LGA.
According to the source, the abductors, about 6 in number, wore masks to conceal their identities.
The eyewitness added that the armed men entered her house through the mosque and whisked her away to an unknown location.
They have not made any contact with the family since the incident, which happened a few weeks after Kogi State Commissioner for Environment, Adewale Omofaiye, escaped being kidnapped.
William Aya, spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, neither responded to calls nor text messages as of the time of filing this report.
