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Unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Sunday night abducted one Mrs. Patience Nasamu, wife of Pastor Samuel Nasamu, and a female member of his church to an unknown destination at Agyaragu in Obi Local Government Area.
Nasamu, a pastor of Word of God Church Agyaragu, who narrated the tragedy, lamented that his wife, who is breastfeeding a three-month-old baby, was abducted alongside a member of his church who came to visit his family after a church service.
“I barely left my wife and our visitor with our newborn baby at home to pray for one of my members who is sick when my wife placed a call to me, and all I could hear was her voice of prayer. She could not even tell me what was happening.
“I stopped the prayers and when I got to the house my wife and a member were abducted, leaving my three-month-old baby behind,” he narrated.
According to him, the gunmen came straight to his apartment in a compound and made all efforts to break the doors and window using a hammer to smash the door. When they could not succeed, they started shooting sporadically, forcing his wife to open the door. In an attempt to run out, she was abducted alongside the member of the church.
He added that at about 7:00 p.m. some strange faces were seen on motorcycles, and shortly after, sounds of gunshots were heard.
The cleric also revealed that he had not heard anything from the abductors since the incident that happened at about 8:15 p.m. on Sunday.
He also admitted that the police came after the incident and called for calm as efforts are ongoing to unravel the criminal act.
Responding, a resident of Agyaragu community, who did not want his name mentioned, lamented that the spate of kidnapping in the area is worrisome and called on Governor Abdullahi Sule to do something urgent.
