Gunmen kidnap pastor’s wife, member in Nasarawa

By Abel Daniel, Lafia

Unknown gunmen suspected to beryllium kidnappers connected Sunday nighttime took Mrs. Patience Nasamu, woman of Pastor Samuel Nasamu and a pistillate subordinate of his religion to an chartless destination astatine Agyaragu successful Obi Local Government Area.

Nasamu, a pastor of Word of God Church Agyaragu, who narrated the tragedy, lamented that his woman who is breast-feeding a three-month-old babe was abducted alongside a subordinate of his religion who came to sojourn his household aft a religion service.

“I hardly near my woman and our visitant with our caller calved babe astatine location to commune for 1 of my members who is sick erstwhile my woman placed a telephone to maine and each I could perceive was her dependable of prayer. She could not adjacent archer maine what was happening.

“I stopped the prayers and erstwhile I got to the location my wife, a subordinate was abducted leaving my 3 period babe behind,” helium narrated.

Nasamu explained further that the gunmen came consecutive to his flat successful a compound and made each efforts to interruption the doors and model utilizing hammer to smatch the doorway and erstwhile they could not win they started shooting sporadically forcing his woman to unfastened the door. In an effort to tally out, she was abducted alongside a subordinate of the church.

According to Nasamu, astatine astir 7:00pm immoderate unusual faces were seen connected motorcycles and soon after, sounds of gunshot were heard.

The cleric disclosed that helium had not heard thing from the abductors since the incidental that happened astatine astir 8:15pm connected Sunday.

He besides admitted that the constabulary came aft the incidental and called for calm arsenic efforts are ongoing to unravel the transgression act.

Responding, a nonmigratory of Agyaragu community, who did not privation his sanction mentioned, lamented that the spate of kidnapping successful the country is worrisome and called connected Governor Abdullahi Sule to bash thing urgent.

“We unrecorded mundane successful fearfulness of being kidnapped and killed if desired ransom is not paid to abductors. Several radical successful our assemblage are being kidnapped connected regular ground including farmers. Help america archer Governor A A Sule that Agyaragu is present astatine the mercy of kidnappers,” helium said.

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