{"id":85197,"date":"2021-08-25T08:25:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=85197"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:25:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:25:37","slug":"n200m-ransom-demanded-by-bandits-for-major-abducted-from-nda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/n200m-ransom-demanded-by-bandits-for-major-abducted-from-nda\/","title":{"rendered":"N200m ransom demanded by bandits for Major abducted from NDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA has been contacted by the terrorists dubbed bandits to make a demand of Two Hundred Million Naira (N200m) ransom for the abducted Officer, Major Stephen Dantong.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the terrorists stormed the NDA barracks at Afaka, Kaduna State where they abducted Major Dantong and killed two soldiers, whose identity\u00a0Pointblanknews.com gathered to be Lieutenant Commodore Wulah and Flight Lieutenant Okoronkwo.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the report, the gunmen operated for hours and left without any hindrance. After they left, soldiers in the barracks made efforts to trail them but failed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThey couldn\u2019t kill even one of them,\u201d an NDA source lamented to our correspondent.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThey searched everywhere in the bush but couldn\u2019t find them. They had fled away with their motorbikes.<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cThey have called to ask for N200million to free the Major,\u201d the source also said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u201cThe attack was ridiculous. They came, teased us and left. Even the helicopter hovering in the bush could not track them.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\nAfter the attack, Bashir Muhd Jajira, spokesman of the NDA in Kaduna, said the security architecture of the NDA was compromised by unknown gunmen who gained access into the residential area within the Academy in Afaka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the unfortunate incident, we lost two personnel and one was abducted,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe Academy, in collaboration with the 1Division Nigerian Army and Air Training Command as well as other security agencies in Kaduna State, has since commenced pursuit of the unknown gunmen within the general area with a view to tracking them and rescuing the abducted personnel.\u201d<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA has been contacted by the terrorists dubbed bandits to make a demand of Two Hundred Million Naira (N200m) ransom for the abducted Officer, Major Stephen Dantong.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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