Gunmen kidnap journalist’s wife, two daughters in Kaduna

Gunmen, on Thursday, reportedly kidnapped the wife and two daughters of a journalist, Muhammed Bashir, in Kaduna State.

Bashir’s wife and his two daughters were said to have been on holiday with her relatives in a suburb of Kaduna when the incident happened.

They were among the 10 members of the same family the bandits kidnapped on Thursday.

Bashir, who is a correspondent with the Nigeria Telegraph, disclosed this to fellow newsmen on Friday 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 in the Kogi Correspondents’ Chapel WhatsApp platform.

Bashir said he had contacted the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) who assured him that they were taking steps to rescue the victims and arrest the kidnappers.