No fewer than 44 people who were kidnapped by bandits are now working on the bandits’ plantations as slaves.
The worshippers were said to have been kidnapped at Zugu village of Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State last Friday.
One Abubakar Bukkuyum, a local of Bukkuyum, dropped the hint in an interview with newsmen on the fate of the abductees.
He affirmed that information he received from one of the bandits who communicated with them is that the captives are working on their millet and sorghum plantations.
Bukkuyum claimed that one of the bandits said “our millet plantations are due for harvest and the captives must do the work for us.”
According to him, so far the bandits have not asked for ransom.
When contacted, the state police spokesman, SP Muhammad Shehu, said search and rescue operation had already commenced to rescue the victims.