Gunmen in the early hours of Thursday, 8 August, 2024 kidnapped wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir in Kaduna.
They were kidnapped along with eight members of the same family on Thursday, 8 August, 2024.
Bashir’s wife and the two daughters were said to have traveled to Kaduna early Thursday, 8 August, 2024 to spend the holiday with her family in a Kaduna suburb.
Bashir, a correspondent of the Nigeria Telegraph newspaper, confirmed the abduction to newsmen in Lokoja, Kogi State capital, on the evening of Friday, 9 August, 2024 in a brief statement.
“My dear colleagues, please, I need your prayers. My two daughters and their mother, including eight others, were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Kaduna, where they went for a holiday.
“Please pray for me,” he wrote in the Kogi State Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists WhatsApp platform.
According to him, his family left Abuja on the same Thursday for Kaduna but got kidnapped at their residence on the night of Thursday, 8 August, 2024.
He said that he had contacted the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) and had been informed that actions were being taken to rescue the victims and capture the gunmen.
