A newly mobilised corps member, Iorliam Jennifer Awashima, has been kidnapped on her way to Kebbi State where she was posted.

Bandits attacked the vehicle Ms Awashima was traveling in along a highway in Tsafe Local Government of Zamfara State on Tuesday.

Peoples Gazette learnt the 29-year-old Ms Awashima, who graduated from the English Department of Benue State University, had boarded a vehicle from Benue state to Kebbi when bandits attacked the vehicle.

Elder sister to Ms Awashima, Judith Benson, told The Gazette on Thursday that bandits dressed in military fatigues waylaid the 18-seater bus, conveying her sister to Kebbi State, kidnapping nine passengers including her younger sister.

“I was told by the bus driver that bandits dressed in military uniform, stopped their vehicle(18 seaters) that carried nine persons, and they thought it was military and stopped.