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The Ruruma community in the Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State has said the community has paid over N1 billion as ransom due to incessant bandit attacks and kidnappings in recent times.
To this end, the community is passionately appealing to the Federal Government to establish a military base in Kwassam to halt the escalating killings and abductions of their people by bandits.
The Ruruma community made this appeal on Sunday in a press statement signed by its National President, Mr Daniel Dallah Peace, which was made available to newsmen in Kaduna.
The President emphasised the need for a military formation in the area to ensure prompt action to restore security and protect lives and properties, revealing that one of their own, a CBN Director, was once abducted in the area, and N300 million was paid as ransom for his release.
Dallah emphasised that a military formation in Kwassam would help restore normalcy in surrounding vulnerable communities that have been displaced over the years. He revealed that about a billion naira has so far been paid as ransom by these vulnerable communities, where 13 people were gruesomely killed and over 200 were taken captive within the space of four months.
“The military formation in Kwassam will enable the communities that have been displaced to return to their ancestral land where they have their farms and farm produce.
“Currently, our traditional leader, Chief Alh. Dauda Abdulsalam, the Pugom Kumana, has not been at home for some years because of the attempt made on his life by the bandits,” Dallah stated.
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