Crime
Bello Turji’s gang kidnaps 10 passengers, burns vehicle in Zamfara
Bandits suspected to be foot soldiers of a notorious bandits’ leader, Bello Turji, have kidnapped 10 passengers and burnt their vehicle along Kaura-Namoda-Shinkafi Road in Zamfara state.
According to Punch, the incident occurred at Kwanar Jalab village in Zungeru Ward, Shinkafi Local Government Area of the state a day after the Defence Headquarters declared Turji “a dead man walking,” vowing that he and other terror masterminds would not live beyond 2025.
Turji had warned that he would resume the abduction and killing of innocent people in Zamfara and Sokoto states if his brother, Baka Wurgi, who is currently in military custody, was not released on or before the end of December 2024.
Wurgi was admitted to the Shinkafi General Hospital where military personnel whisked him away from his hospital bed.
Turji threatened to launch attacks on the people of the area if Wurgi continued to be with the military.
The bandits, suspected to be Turji’s boys, launched the first attack on Kaura-Namoda-Shinkafi Road following the expiration of the deadline given to the military to release Wurgi.
It was learnt that bandits ambushed the passenger vehicle around 8 am while conveying 10 passengers to Shinkafi town from Gusau, the Zamfara State capital.
An indigene of the area, Garba Sani, said the bandits abducted all the passengers in the vehicle and finally set the vehicle on fire.
Sani maintained that this was the first time the bandits were burning down a vehicle after abducting passengers.
“This is the first time we are witnessing this sad event for bandits to burn a vehicle after they abducted the passengers. They used to kidnap people along the road, but they have never burnt vehicles after an operation,” Sani said.
He said the incident was most likely linked to Turji’s threat over the detention of his brother.
“You are aware that Bello Turji had threatened to launch attacks in response to the arrest of his relative Wurgi. What happened on this road could be as a result of the threat by Turji to force the government to release his brother Baka Wurgi,” Sani said.
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