Safiyanu Isa Andaha, the Chairman of the Akwanga Local Government Area in Nasarawa State, has been abducted by a group of armed individuals.
According to police officials, the victim and a local were taken away on the evening of New Year’s Day at Ningo village along Andaha-Akwanga Road.
Police Public Relations Officer Ramhan Nansel said that in order to guarantee the victims’ release, security personnel from the police and other agencies have moved quickly to start tracking down the kidnappers.
Even with security personnel present, gunmen have continued to operate in the country’s north-central and north-western regions.
A few weeks prior, terrorists ambushed a truck in Rivers, murdering four troops, two civilian drivers, and kidnapping two Korean workers. That event happened on Monday.
Nasarawa, just like Zamfara, is one of several states in northwestern and central Nigeria terrorised by bandits who raid villages, kill and abduct residents as well as burn homes after looting them.
The gangs maintain camps in a huge forest straddling Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states.
The country is facing a myriad of security challenges, including a 14-year jihadist insurgency in the northeast that has killed at least 40,000 people and forced more than two million others to flee their homes.