Gunmen Kidnap Pastor’s Breastfeeding Wife, Church Member In Nasarawa
Armed men on Sunday night kidnapped Mrs Patience Nasamu, wife of Pastor Samuel Nasamu, and a female member of his church at Agyaragu in Obi Local Government Area in Nasarawa State.
Nasamu, a pastor of Word of God Church, while narrating the incident, lamented that his wife, who is a breastfeeding mother of their three-month-old baby, was abducted alongside 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 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 were abducted, leaving my three-month-old baby behind,” he told Vanguard.
The pastor further explained that the gunmen came straight to his apartment in a compound and made efforts to break the doors and windows using a hammer to smash the door.
When they could not succeed, they started shooting sporadically, forcing his wife to open the door. In an attempt to run out, she was abducted alongside a member of the church.
According to the cleric, at about 7:00 pm, some strange faces were seen on motorcycles, and shortly after, sounds of gunshots were heard.
He also disclosed that he had not heard anything from the abductors since the incident that happened at about 8:15 pm on Sunday.
He also admitted that the police came after the incident and called for calm as efforts are ongoing to unravel the criminal act.
Also commenting on the incident, a resident of the Agyaragu community, who spoke to Vanguard, lamented that there has been a series of kidnappings in the area, as it is becoming worrisome, and called on Governor Abdullahi Sule to do something urgent.
“We live every day in fear of being kidnapped and killed if the desired ransom is not paid to the abductors. Several people in our community are being kidnapped on a daily basis, including farmers. Help us tell Governor Abdullahi Sule that Agyaragu is now at the mercy of kidnappers,” he said.
THE WHISTLER reached out to Nansel Ramhan, Public Relations Officer for the Nasarawa State Police Command, for comment on the incident. However, multiple calls and messages to his phone went unanswered.