Olu Samuel,Lokoja

The wife and two daughters of a Kogi based journalist, Muhammed Bashir were among the ten members of the same family kidnapped on Thursday in Kaduna.

Bashir’s wife and his two daughters arrived Kaduna earlier in Thursday for holiday with her family in a surborb of Kaduna

Bashir , a correspondent with the Nigeria Telegraph disclosed this to colleagues on Friday in Lokoja in a tearse statement.

“My dear colleagues, please I need your prayers, my two Daughters and their Mother including eight others were kidnapped yesterday by unknown gun men in Kaduna, where they went for holiday, pls pray for me”. He wrote in Kogi correspondent chapel WhatsApp Platform.

He said that he has contacted the police and the Department of state security services and has be assured that steps were being taken to rescue the victims and arrest the Kidnappers.

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