Bandits have attacked Tsiga village in Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State where they kidnapped a former Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, retired Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga and eight others.

An eye witness narrated how the bandits in their dozens stormed the community on motorcycles at twelve midnight and immediately started searching for their targets.

Narrating the ordeal the eye witness who pleaded anonymity says the streets were empty because it was already around 12 midnight, as they disembarked from the bikes, they started flashing torch lights to locate the houses of their targets in the town.

He said about a dozen of them stormed Brigadier Tsiga's house, the other kidnapped people were also targeted because the kidnappers went straight to their houses.