The newest abduction comes three months after the top of the nation’s Methodist Church was whisked away by gunmen within the area. The cleric was launched barely a day after his kidnap after allegedly paying his captors a ransom of 100 million naira (round $235,000).
Armed gangs have been kidnapping folks, together with clergymen, for ransom from villages and on highways primarily within the northwest and the observe has unfold to different components of the nation, rising insecurity in Africa’s most populous nation.
Zita Ihedoro, secretary normal of Sisters of Jesus, the Saviour Generalate, stated the 4 nuns have been kidnapped whereas touring from Rivers state to Imo for a thanksgiving mass on Sunday.
“We implore for intense prayer for his or her fast and secure launch,” Ihedoro stated in an announcement.
Police spokesperson in Imo, Michael Abattam, stated officers have been pursuing the abductors.
“We are presently on their path,” Abattam informed CNN Tuesday. “We are doing all the things to see that they (the nuns) are rescued.”
In the northwest, Nigeria’s army has began an air offensive to eradicate the armed teams chargeable for kidnapping residents from villages and cities within the area.
“In the Northwest particularly, the impact of strikes undertaken by NAF (Nigerian Air Force) plane have revealed that a number of terrorists have been eradicated and their enclaves destroyed,” the Nigerian Air Force stated in a latest assertion.