Nigeria: Kwara Abduction - Community Tells Police to Stop Disputing Figures, Rescue Victims

What the report says

The Kaiama Development Association (KDA) has pushed back against the Kwara State Police Command’s challenge to the reported scale of the February 3 attack on Woro community in northern Nigeria. In a statement reported by Daily Trust and carried by AllAfrica, the group said 176 residents are still missing and urged authorities to move from debating the numbers to intensifying rescue efforts.

According to the report, the KDA argued that records compiled by the community after the raid should not be dismissed simply because they were not drawn from police databases. The association said information from families, traditional rulers and local volunteers reflects people still unaccounted for after the terrorist invasion. It also described recent comments attributed to the police commissioner, Ojo Adekimi, as unhelpful in a humanitarian crisis that it said calls for cooperation.

Daily Trust reported that the police command had said it could not verify the claim that 176 people were abducted. The article also noted a separate account from a local resident involved in negotiation efforts, who said some women abducted while pregnant had since given birth in captivity, suggesting the number still held could be higher than previously thought. The dispute underscores both the difficulty of confirming casualty figures after an attack and the continuing uncertainty faced by affected families.