Nightfall in Pankshin: Gunmen Drag Lawmaker From His Home — Lawmaker Abducted in Plateau Shock

By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun

Just hours after dusk, it happened. Not on some backroad. Not in a market crush. But right there — his own porch, under the weak glow of a single bulb. The lawmaker, representing Pankshin South in Plateau’s assembly, was grabbed. Dragged off. Gone. By gunmen.

AIT says it was from his house in Dong, Jos North. Just another quiet evening. Until it wasn’t. DAILY POST? They’ve been counting these stories — the kidnappings, the raids, the quiet dread settling over Plateau like dust after dry harmattan.

Security? Still shaky. Again. Again. Again.

Neighbors heard tires screech. Then silence. Then nothing — except whispers spreading like fire: They took him. The ones with the guns. The ones who always come when the night’s thickest.

His family’s still waiting. No call. No word. Just the echo of boots on gravel. And the old ache — this state’s bleeding, and the world barely notices until it’s on the 11 pm news.

Plateau’s been at war with shadows for too long. Now even lawmakers aren’t safe in their own four walls.

They say it’s “reportedly” him. But down there in Dong, they know it’s real. Real fear. Real silence. Real grief waiting to break.