A journalist and editor of the popular Rariya Hausa online newspaper, Sani Ahmed, has reportedly been abducted by unknown gunmen while travelling from Abuja to Kaduna State.
It wad gathered that Ahmed had embarked on a trip on Thursday evening for a programme in Kaduna metropolis.
Comrade Yahaya Abdullahi, a member of the #Take-It-Back Movement, told newsmen yesterday that the journalist left Abuja around 8pm and two hours later, at exactly 10pm, sent an emergency message indicating that he had been kidnapped.
Abdullahi said that since receiving the distress message, there has been no further communication from Ahmed, and his whereabouts remain unknown.
“We were together on Sunday during a gathering, and he mentioned that he would be travelling to Kaduna for a programme. He left Abuja yesterday’s evening going Kaduna for a programme, unfortunately he only sent a message that he was being kidnapped. Since that time till now we didn’t hear from him anymore”, Abdullahi said.
The incident is the latest in a series of abductions along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, a route notorious for armed attacks and kidnappings in recent years.
Days ago, bandits killed five persons and kidnapped two others in Kaduna State. According to eyewitnesses, the attacks occurred in multiple locations across the state.
