The Arewa Consultative Forum has described the attacks and kidnappings along Kaduna to Abuja road as a national shame, declaring that it is completely unacceptable.
The Forum said this in a statement by its spokesman, Emmanuel Yawe, condemned the killing of Alhaji Hamida Sagir, a retired Director of Protocol at the Federal Capital Development Authority and a governorship aspirant in Zamfara state.
Dandal Kura Radio International reports that Sagir was said to have been killed by bandits along the Kaduna to Abuja road while several others were said to have been abducted.
It lamented that on a daily basis, Nigerians were being terrorised, kidnapped and killed without let on the road, noting that both the Kaduna state and the federal governments which owned the highway appear to be helpless in securing the lives on this road.
The Forum said this in a statement by its killed without let on the road, noting that both the Kaduna state and the federal governments which owned the highway appear to be helpless in securing the lives on this road.
The statement said that the Forum is becoming agitated by the unrestrained acts of terrorism on the strategic highway between Abuja and Kaduna.