A senior Pastor of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Dankade, in Igabi local government area of Kaduna State, Rev. Zakariah Ido and 16 members of the church were on Sunday kidnapped by unknown gunmen.
The Pastor, his daughter and 15 others were seized by gunmen within the church premises during service.
The Zaria DCC Secretary of the church, Rev Nath Waziri told The Nationng that the gun bearing kidnappers took away the pastor and others from his church.
Wazri told the publication, “It is sad to inform you that one of our pastors, his daughter and 15 other members of ECWA Church Dankade were kidnapped in the early hours of today.
“The church hosted a combine choir fellowship Saturday night to early hours of today. Then, this morning (Sunday), kidnappers stormed the church, when the gunmen came, they asked everyone in the church to surrender his or her phones and demanded the whereabouts of the pastor.
“After threatening the choristers they became afraid and showed them the pastor home. They took him away and his daughter with 15 others amongst which there is the son of the pastor of Assemblies of God Church.”
According to Reverend Waziri, most of the people kidnappers were young ladies, a young man and two elders of the church.
The Kaduna state police command could not confirm the incident as at the time of filing this report.
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