Eight foreigners including a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers were yesterday kidnapped at a Lebanese Construction Company, Setraco in Jama’are, Bauchi State. Security sources said those abducted also include two women. It was the worst case of foreigners being kidnapped in the Northern region since an insurgency by Islamist militants intensified nearly two years ago.
No one took responsibility for the raid, but Al-Qaeda-aligned group Ansaru, which rose to prominence only in recent months, claimed the kidnap in December of a French national who is still missing. Bauchi State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Ladan, said the gunmen attacked a police station and a prison overnight before storming the construction firm’s compound in Jama’are township.
“We repelled the attack on the police station and the security men at the prison yard also repelled the attack, but they burnt two vehicles in Jama’are police station,” Ladan said. “They then attacked Setraco Construction Company, killed a local security guard and they succeeded in kidnapping people.” The Italian and Greek foreign ministries confirmed that one of their nationals was taken in the raid. A spokesman for the British Embassy in Abuja said it was investigating.
Ansaru’s full name is Jama’atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan, which roughly translates as “Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa,” claimed responsibility for a dawn raid on a major police station in the Nigerian capital last year, where it said hundreds of prisoners were released. Last month, it attacked a convoy of Nigerian troops en route to deployment in Mali.
The group said the abduction of the Frenchman last year was motivated by Paris’ ban of the full-face veil and its military intervention against Islamist insurgents in Mali.. Britain last November put Ansaru on its official “terrorist group” list, saying it was aligned with Al-Qaeda and was behind the kidnap of a British and an Italian killed last year during a failed rescue attempt.
Ansaru is thought to have loose ties to Boko Haram, which has killed hundreds during a three-year-long insurgency focused mostly on Nigerian security forces, religious targets and politicians, rather than foreigners.
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These islmist terrorist are enjoying the moral and financial support of their so-called rich men, but one day they will turn against these evil sponsors in Jesus name. Amen. The islamic religion is just an association of cultist and should not be taken serious as a religion. All over the world, any country with a sizeable number of these people donnot know peace. WHY?
Plain truth u’re full of crap, so to u only christainity is peacful, have u evertravelled to irland, if u’ve u will understand what I mean, Roman church fighting Anglican n protestant. U ever heard of WAPCO cultism in USA. Uwant to tell me that is islam or muslim, I can tell u guy that u have limited knowledge of chritain radicalism, so pls stop ascribing radicalism to only islam n inparticular muslims. I personally don’t feel sorry for those foreigners that were kidnapped.they all know de risk they were taking by staying at that location. Since they were there to make money, they must have known that this kind of thing can happen. Afterall other tribes who are not Hausa fulani are leaving de region in thousand . If an outsiders want to remain in de north of Nigerian, I will say them stay there but when things like this happen to them they should take it gladly, cos they are paying de price of their greed for money. Period.
kola what you just said is a simple truth…i am a christian but all these moslem this and moslem that is getting out of hand…why not we look deeply into all these problems to know if some evil men are hiding in the northern Nigeria and doing all these to our country..
david you are not a christian. you are a moslem
islam is not a religion. it is a terrorist/militant organisation.
islam breed the scrap called kola amodu and boko haram terrorists.
Ihatenigeria u said islam is a terrorist n I say like ur oldman is a terrorist. How about that? U know I called it de way it is, asshole.
i know you kola amodu belong to this bunch of good for nothing moslems . I repeat, your nonsense organisation called islam is not a religion. your fake prophet moha mad hipnotised your fathers and fore fathers into this evil.