The wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, were among the 10 members of one family kidnapped in Kaduna State.
Bashir’s wife and his two daughters arrived in Kaduna for a holiday with her (the wife’s) family in a suburb of the state.
Bashir, a correspondent with the Nigeria Telegraph, disclosed this to colleagues, yesterday, 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. Please, pray for me,” he wrote on the Kogi Correspondents’ Chapel WhatsApp platform. He noted that he had contacted the police and the Department of State Services (DSS), and had been assured that steps were being taken to rescue the victims and arrest the kidnappers.
