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Outrage as gunmen kidnap CAN Chairman

…abductors demand N20m ransom

Christian community in Nasarawa state has condemned the kidnap of the Association’s Chairman in the state, Mr. Joseph Masin yesterday.

The kidnap of Mr. Masin was confirmed by the State Police Commissioner, Bola Longe in Lafia, the state capital yesterday morning.

He told journalists that the bishop was taken from his house in Bukan-sidi in Lafia around 12:39 a.m. Thursday and that the police have mobilised officers as well as hunters to free the cleric.

Corroborating the incident a former Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN in the state, Mr. Yohanna Samari said the bishop was abducted by the attackers at midnight at his Bukan-sidi residence.

According to Mr. Samari the abductors took the CAN Chairman away on a motorcycle explaining however, that nobody was hurt during the incident but the family had been greatly traumatised.

Tayo Samuel, the CAN Vice Chairman in the state, said the abductors had contacted the family, demanding N20 million ransom.

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