Bandits abduct PUNCH reporter, two others in Abuja
A journalist with the PUNCH, Okechukwu Nnodim, has been kidnapped.
Mr. Nnodim was abducted from his house in the Arab Road area of Kubwa, Abuja, on Wednesday night by five gunmen.
According to his wife, Oluchi Nnodim, the gunmen scaled their compound’s fence and demanded that they open their apartment door.
She added that men shot at their windows and ripped off the burglar-proof bar.
“My husband asked me to stay with the children in their room. I heard the men asking him to bring out money. But he told them he didn’t have money in the house,” she said to PUNCH.
Also kidnapped were the two sons of Mr. Nnodim’s neighbour, Ms. Gbeyide, who explained that the men threatened to kill them if they refused to open the doors.
“They took our phones and marched him out of the house. They went to our neighbour’s house and also abducted her two sons,” Mrs. Nnodim explained.
The Federal Capital Territory police spokesperson, ASP Miriam Yusuf, confirmed the incident.
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