Gunmen kidnap journalist in Adamawa

Amra Ahmed, a senior news editor with the Adamawa state broadcasting cooperation (ABC), has been kidnapped by gunmen.

Suleiman Nguroje, the state police spokesman, confirmed the incident to NAN in Yola, Adamawa state capital.

Nguroje said the journalist was kidnapped at about 1am on Tuesday in her residence at Mbamba ward in Yola south LGA.

“The command received an emergency report that one Mrs Amra Ahmed, a staff of Adamawa Broadcasting Cooperation (ABC), Yola, was kidnapped,” he said.

“Ahmad was kidnapped at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday in her house in Mbamba Ward in Yola South Local Government Area.

“The command has swung into action and the Anti-Kidnap Squad has been deployed.”

Ahmed Isa-Mbamba, husband of the victim, said he was the target but the kidnappers took his wife when they discovered he was not at home.

He said his wife, who is a nursing mother, was abducted leaving their six months old baby.

“The kidnappers came in a sizeable number; five of them broke into my house while others were outside,” he said.

“When they entered the house, they met my wife praying. They inquired from her my whereabouts, when they realised that I was not in the house they abducted her.”

Isa-Mbamba said he has not yet been contacted by the abductors.

Ahmed’s kidnap is one of the many cases of abductions that have rocked the country in recent times.

On April 24, three students were abducted from the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM) in Benue state.

The same day, gunmen kidnapped Olukunle Oyedokun, a hotelier, and nine of his family members in Oyo state.