The wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, were among the 10 members of the same family kidnapped in Kaduna State on Thursday, August 8.
Bashir’s wife and his two daughters arrived in Kaduna earlier on Thursday to holiday with her family in a suburb of Kaduna.
Bashir, a correspondent with the Nigerian Telegraph, broke the news in a statement he released 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.
According to him, the security agencies had assured him that steps were being taken to rescue the victims and arrest the kidnappers.
