According to reports, the chairman of Correspondent Chapel, Nasarawa State Chapter, Suleiman Abubakar, escaped death by the whiskers after armed robbers attacked the Chapel’s vehicle he was traveling in along Gudi road, Akwanga, when he was going back to Lafia from Keffi yesterday night.
The driver of the vehicle Eche Amos said the robbers blocked the express road with logs and heavy stones and shot sporadically into the air.
He said their vehicle ran into the robbers unexpectedly adding that he narrowly escaped from the onslaught of the men of the underworld, but the wives of Mr. Suleiman and former House member and chairman of Obi Local Government Area, Hon. Sidi Bako who were in the same Correspondence Chapel’s vehicle, were both kidnapped.
According to the eyewitness, three NYSC members (one male and two females) aboard a Benue Links bus traveling to Abuja were also kidnapped.