By Gabriel Atumeyi
Unknown gunmen on Friday night abducted a busload of members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Kaduna, Kaduna State, 365Daily has learnt.
According to church sources in Kaduna the abducted persons were “adult missionaries, male and female, from Kaduna Province 1 going to Kafanchan for prayer work.”
The source also disclosed that as of 9.25 p.m. on Friday, the kidnappers had not got in touch with the church and family members of the abducted persons.
An engineer, Mr Eje Kenny Faraday, who said he “narrowly escaped being a victim,” had broken the news on his Facebook wall with the photograph of the empty bus around 7.00 p.m. on Friday.
“All passengers in the bus are just kidnapped along Kachia Road, Km 63 from Kaduna,” he posted on his Facebook wall.
The inscription on the side of the bus reads, ‘The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Region 30, Trinity Sanctuary, Kaduna’. Mr Faraday, in reply to a commenters’ enquiry as to when the incident happened, wrote: “Today. Not long ago. I was almost a victim.”
While the Head, Media and Public Relations of RCCG, Pastor Olaitan Olubiyi, has confirmed the abduction, the church is yet to release details of the identities and number of the victims.