Gunmen on Thursday, August 09 abducted 10 family members including the wife and two daughters of Kogi state-based journalist, Muhammed Bashiri in kaduna.
Bashir, a correspondent with the Nigeria Telegraph, revealed this to his collegues on Friday in Lokoja in a terse statement.
Bashir’s wife and two daughters had earlier arrived on Thursday for a holiday with her (the wife’s) family in a suburb of Kaduna.
Bashir, a correspondent with the Nigeria Telegraph, disclosed this to colleagues on Friday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, in a terse statement.
“My dear colleagues, please I need your prayers. My two daughters and their mother, including eight others, were kidnapped yesterday by unknown gunmen in Kaduna where they went for a holiday. Pls pray for me,” he wrote in the Kogi Correspondents’ Chapel WhatsApp platform.
He noted that he had contacted the police and the Department of State Services, and had been assured that steps were being taken to rescue the victims and arrest the kidnappers.
