Pastor’s wife, member kidnapped by gunmen in Nasarawa
Unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Sunday night adopted Mrs. Patience Nasamu, wife of pastor Samuel Nasamu and a female member of her church to an unknown destination at Agyaragu in Obi local government.
The husband, Samuel Nasamu, a pastor of Word of God church Agyaragu who narrated the tragedy lamented that his wife who is breast feeding a three month old baby was abducted along side 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 new born 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, a member was abducted leaving my three month baby behind”, husband narrated.
He explained further that the gunmen came straight to his apartment in a compound and made all efforts to break the doors and window using hard hammer to smatch the door and when they could not succeed they started shooting sporadically forcing his wife to open the door in an attempt to run out was abducted alongside a member of the church.
According the husband at about 7:00pm some strange faces were seen on motorcycles and shortly after, sounds of gunshot were heard.
The husband disclosed that he had not heard anything from the abductors since the incident that happened at about 8:15pm on Sunday.
He also admitted that the police came after the incident and called for a calm as efforts are ongoing to unravel the criminal act.
Responding, a resident of Agyaragu community who would not want his name mentioned on print lamented that the spat of kidnapping in the area is worrisome and called on governor Abdullahi Sule to do something urgent.
“We live everyday in fear of being kidnapped and killed if desired ransome is not paid to abductors. Several people in our community are being kidnapped on daily basis including farmers. Help us tell governor A A Sule that Agyaragu is now at the mercy of kidnappers”.
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