The situation has already drew flaks against the state government, which had quickly distanced itself from the action of the monarch and said it would investigate the issue.
Although journalists could not reach the monarch, Alhaji Ussaini Magaji, for comment, his Secretary said they would respond to the matter at the appropriate time.
However, a Commissioner, Alhaji Kabiru Birnin Magaji, told the BBC Hausa Service, that it was not true that the state governor ordered the release of the two Fulani women.
“It is not possible. How can the governor who is against any negotiation with these terrorists order the release of the women when their husbands are still keeping six people in captivity? This is not true”, Magaji said.
He also said the government was not aware that the youths who kept the Fulani women were arrested.
Reports indicated that after the monarch ordered the release of the two women, they were transported on motorbikes to a nearby bush for onward journey to their husbands.
The youths came up with the hostage swap idea because the bandits, on Tuesday, kidnapped the six residents on their farms and seized their motorcycles.
A community member also spoke to the BBC in detail on the matter.
“The women are two, one is pregnant. We identified them because those bandits are not strangers.
“We know them because these were people that we associated with in the past, who now turned into our enemies,” he said.
He said they were yet to hear from the bandits, even though their wives had pleaded with them to release the six kidnapped victims for them to be freed.
“If they don’t release our people, we won’t release their women. We’ve not taken the law into our hands, the authorities know that we are law abiding.
“We are just being suppressed; we don’t know what to do. Going to the bush is no longer interesting. Likewise at home where ever you go, you’re being trailed. So we must stand up. You only live once.
“These bandits and their location are known, it’s necessary to find a solution to this insecurity.
“The bandits who were more than ten met the victims on the farm and kidnapped them at gun point. They also took their motorcycles.
“They kidnapped seven people but one was able to escape and return home. The remaining six are still with the bandits, four men and two women.
“This is not the first time. There was a time we held their livestock until they released some of our people in their captivity.
“That’s why we held their women demanding that they release our six community members before we release their wives”.
