A senior pastor with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA),Reverend Zakariah, Dankade, in Igabi local government area of Kaduna state has been kidnapped.
The senior pastor was reportedly kidnapped alongside his daughter, a son of the pastor of Assemblies of God Church and 14 other people – A leader in the church said some gun bearing kidnappers took away the pastors from his church home and others from the church A senior pastor of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Dankade, in Igabi local government area of Kaduna state has been kidnapped.
Leadership reports that pastor and the other victims were seized by gunmen within the church premises during service on Sunday, May 19. The Zaria DCC secretary of the church, Reverend Nath Waziri, said the gun bearing kidnappers took away the pastors from his church home and others from the church.
Waziri said most of the people kidnapped were young ladies, a young man and two elders of the church. He said: “It is sad to inform you that one of our pastors, his daughter and 15 other members of ECWA Church Dankade were kidnapped in the early hours of today (Sunday).” “The church hosted a combine choir fellowship Saturday night to early hours of today. Then, this morning (Sunday), kidnappers stormed the church, when the gunmen came, they asked everyone in the church to surrender his or her phones and demanded the whereabouts of the pastor.
“After threatening the choristers they became afraid and showed them the pastor home. They took him away and his daughter with 15 others among which there is the son of the pastor of Assemblies of God Church,” Waziri said. He also said that as at 10pm on Sunday, no contact has been established with the kidnappers.
The kidnappers were arrested at Kashimbila forest in Takum local government area of the state. A resident of the area, Bulus Gampi, said the soldiers arrived the area in helicopter from Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city before launching the attack on the kidnappers. Gampi also said that the soldiers from Abuja joined their colleagues at the Army barracks in Takum to invade the Kashimbila forest which has been a den of notorious terrorist, Gana and his gang.
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