Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Sunday night abducted one Patience Nasamu, wife of Pastor Samuel Nasamu, alongside a female church member in the Agyaragu community of Obi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State.
The victims were whisked away to an unknown destination, leaving behind a three-month-old baby.
Narrating the incident to newsmen in Lafia on Monday, Pastor Nasamu of Word of God Church, Agyaragu, said his wife and the visitor were taken while he had briefly stepped out.
He said, “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 of our church were abducted, leaving my three-month-old baby behind.”
The pastor explained that the gunmen stormed his compound and tried to break in with a hammer. When they could not succeed, they fired sporadically, forcing his wife to attempt an escape. She and the visitor were then captured.
He added that around 7:00 p.m. before the incident, strange faces had been sighted on motorcycles, followed shortly by gunfire. The abduction took place around 8:15 p.m.
Nasamu disclosed that no contact had been made by the abductors since the attack, but operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command had visited the scene.
“The police came after the incident and called for calm, assuring that efforts were ongoing to unravel the criminal act,” he said.
A resident of Agyaragu, who spoke on condition of anonymity, lamented the rising wave of insecurity in the community.
“We live every day in fear of being kidnapped and probably killed if the desired ransom is not paid to abductors. Several people in our community are being kidnapped on a daily basis, including farmers. Please, Governor Abdullahi Sule should be aware that Agyaragu is now at the mercy of kidnappers,” he said.
As of press time, attempts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ramhan Nansel, were unsuccessful as his mobile lines were not reachable.
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