The wife and two daughters of Muhammed Bashir, a journalist based in Kogi State, were among ten members of the same family who were kidnapped on Thursday in Kaduna State.
Bashir’s wife and daughters had traveled to Kaduna earlier that day to spend the holiday with her family in a suburb of the state.
Bashir, a correspondent for the Nigeria Telegraph, confirmed the incident to colleagues in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, through a brief statement on Friday.
“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.
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