- By Halimah Olamide
Two journalists, Alhaji AbdulGafar Alabelewe and AbdulRaheem Aodu, both reporters for The Nation and Blueprint Newspapers, respectively, in Kaduna State. have been kidnapped by bandits in Danhonu community in Chikun Local Government of the state.
Alabelewe, the current chairman of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna State Council, was kidnapped alongside his wife and two children.
The bandits attacked the community on Saturday nigh.
Aodu and his wife were also kidnapped, leaving behind their sick daughter.
Disclosing this, Taofeeq Olayemi, a family member of one of the victims, said the bandits stormed the community at about 10:30 pm, shooting sporadically before the abduction.
The bandits initially took Alabelewe, his wife, three children, and a guest, but later released the guest and one of the children.
The bandits were reported to have entered Abdulgafar’s house through the fence; ,making straight into his bedroom to pick him and his wife and two of their kids.