How Gunmen Waylaid and Abducted 3 Church Leaders in Kaduna

An eyewitness who escaped the terrifying abduction of three clerics has told how he escaped the horrifying incident alive. 

 

The abduction of three members of the United Church of Christ in Nigeria otherwise known as HEKAN has left the members of the church and family members in deep mourning. Yesterday, the national leader, Rev. Emmanuel Dziggau, his assistant, Anthony Iliya and a retired Pastor of the church, Rev. Yakubu Dzarma were kidnapped along Kaduna-Abuja expressway for a ransom of N100 million.

 

According to reports, the clerics who were said to have gone to clear a piece of land the church had acquired over 15 years, ago along the Abuja expressway, when unknown faces wearing masks and brandishing AK 47 rifles forcefully kidnapped them.

 

One of the clerics, Rev. Jubrailu Ibrahim Wobiat, who managed to escape from the kidnappers explained that they had gone to clear a piece of land preparatory to the foundation laying for the church’s proposed seminary.

 

He said, “We went to clear the land to start building our seminary school. We started the work on Saturday.

“We finished the work of the day and we were just about leaving. The vice president was to take off to Abuja, suddenly we saw men wearing masks and armed with AK 47 rifles.

“They are about six. They blocked the small access road leading to the main road as our president, his vice and the other clerics were driving out of the place.

“They ordered them out of their cars, but one of the drivers who was driving  the vice president  escaped and ran back to those of us who were still behind at the site to tell us what had happened.

“We quickly abandoned our cars and ran into the bush for our dear lives and got to the expressway to the town. The police later escorted us to pick our cars,” he narrated further.