Five abducted villagers in Niger state have been executed by Bandits for failure of their family to pay ransom for their release.
The five victims executed were among the over sixty abducted villagers from Adunu in Kafin-Koro district of Paikoro and Beni in Munya local government area of the state over two weeks ago.
Nigeriacrime.com also learned that they threaten to kill more instalmentally if the N100m ransom demanded their release is not met soonest.
Among those executed is a retired Police Officer, Mr Moses Tanko and another serving Police Officer whose name could not be identified yet.
The duo were part of those abducted from Adunu village two weeks ago.
A community leader close to the District Head of Adunu, Mallam Kabiru Bawa said the bandits set free three women under captivity but not until after raping them and directed them to go and relay their sad stories and those executed to the villagers.
Their being set free is also intended to speed up the possible payment of ransom for others still in captivity.
Two weeks ago, the bandits numbering over 200 invaded the two communities of Adunu and Beni in broad daylight and killed a medical practitioner while over 60 people including women and children were abducted.
At the peak of the cashless problem across the country, the bandits collected as low as between 10,000 to 20,000 from the victims to bail themselves and such people were set free.
Those who could not pay were whisked away to Birnin Gwari and Zamfara forest and reduced the ransom was from N200m to N100million and gave last Sunday, 26th as the deadline.
The five of the victims were however executed on Monday evening while the women were released on Tuesday to go and inform the community of the execution.
The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Humanitarian Affairs, Mr Emmanuel Umar could not be reached for confirmation as his phone was not going through while the state police command is also yet to comment on the development.