{"id":34422,"date":"2020-10-07T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34422"},"modified":"2020-10-07T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:32:38","slug":"group-decries-increasing-wave-of-kidnappings-in-southern-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34422","title":{"rendered":"Group decries increasing wave of kidnappings in Southern Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has decried the increasing wave of recent kidnappings which has left residents in the area living in fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOKAPU in a statement issued on Tuesday said that the continuous kidnapping<\/a> of innocent people unabated has created anxiety, confusion and fear in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group in the statement issued by its National Public Relations Officer, Luka Binniyat, noted that the development has further cast what it described dark, grim hue on the ever diminishing security reality in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement by SOKAPU reads in part; \u201cIt has been over one week today since trigger-happy gunmen abducted the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Kaura Local Government Area (LGA) in Southern part of Kaduna State \u2013 Dr. Bege Katuga \u2013 on his farm in Juji \u2013 a suburb of Kaduna town that falls under Chikun local government area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It added, \u201cThe commercial bike rider that conveyed him to the farm was gruesomely shot dead on the spot before the kidnappers of the Chairman disappeared with him into the unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement observed that for about 42 days since gunmen in broad day light invaded Prince Academy, Damba Kasaya in Chikun LGA, which also forms part of Southern Kaduna and killed Benjamin Auta, 35 taking away Miracle Danjuma,16; Favor Danjuma, 10 and Happiness Odoji, 16. Their teachers: Mr Shadrach Bako, 28 and Miss Christiana Madugu, 27 were also kidnapped alongside their hapless pupils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTill date, the fate of these innocent children and their teachers is unknown, as government and security agencies have kept sealed lips over this crime as if their lives don\u2019t matter,\u201d the statement recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It noted that the abduction of Katuka, a serving Local Government Chairman, has thrown the people in the state, into anxiety, confusion and fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has decried the increasing wave of recent kidnappings which has left residents in the area living in fear. SOKAPU in a statement issued on Tuesday said that the continuous kidnapping of innocent people unabated has created anxiety, confusion and fear in the state. The group in the statement issued by its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGroup decries increasing wave of kidnappings in Southern Kaduna » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34422\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34422#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Insurgency\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=24\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Group decries increasing wave of kidnappings in Southern Kaduna\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Group decries increasing wave of kidnappings in Southern Kaduna » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34422","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=34422#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Insurgency","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=24"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Group decries increasing wave of kidnappings in Southern Kaduna"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=24\" rel=\"category\">Insurgency<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has decried the increasing wave of recent kidnappings which has left residents in the area living in fear. SOKAPU in a statement issued on Tuesday said that the continuous kidnapping of innocent people unabated has created anxiety, confusion and fear in the state. The group in the statement issued by its…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34422"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}