Gunmen abduct Nasarawa pastor’s wife, church member

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Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Sunday night abducted one Patience Nasamu, the wife of Pastor Samuel Nasamu and a female member of the Word of God church in the Agyaragu community of Obi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, to an unknown destination.

The victim’s husband, Samuel Nasamu, a pastor with Word of God Church, Agyaragu, narrated the situation to newsmen in Lafia, the state capital, on Monday.

He lamented that his wife, who is currently breastfeeding a three-month-old baby, was abducted alongside a member of his church who came to visit his family after a church service on Sunday.

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.”

He explained further that the gunmen came straight to his apartment in a compound and made all efforts to break the doors and window using a hard hammer to smatch the doors, adding that when they could not succeed they started shooting sporadically, which forced his wife to open the door in an attempt to run out, where they were both abducted.

According to the victim’s husband, at about 7:00pm on Sunday before the incident, some strange faces were seen on motorcycles, and shortly after, sounds of gunfire were heard. Punch