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Published 13 May 2021
The female journalist in Adamawa State, who spent eight days in captivity, on Wednesday regained her freedom from her abductors.
Mrs Amra Ahmed Diska, a nursing mother and News Editor with the Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation, Yola, was kidnapped on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, from her residence in the state capital.
Amra’s release has brought joy and happiness to her colleagues, family and well wishers, who had been organising prayers for her safe release since she was abducted.
The state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists had declared a seven-day fasting and prayer for her safe release.
Amra, a nursing mother and News Editor at ABC, Yola, was kidnapped on the night of last Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at her residence in Yola, the state capital.
By Onimisi Alao, Yola The News Editor with Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Mrs Amrah Ahmed, who was kidnapped last week, has regained her freedom. Mrs. Ahmed, a nursing mother who was separated from her 6-month-old baby by the kidnappers, was allowed to return home in the early hours of Wednesday. The female journalist was abducted from her home in Mbamba, a suburb of Yola Town in Yola South local government area, in the night of May 4..
Daily Trust learnt that the assailants who seemed to have targeted Amra’s husband abducted her when they couldn’t find him.
“It appears the gunmen came with the aim of kidnapping the husband of the journalist. But since they didn’t meet him, they decided to kidnap the nursing mother,” a source said.
The spokesman for Adamawa State Police Command, DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, confirmed the incident, saying the journalist was abducted from her husband’s house at Mbamba between 1:00am and 2:00am.
He said the police operatives had been dispatched to track down the kidnappers and bring them to justice, expressing confidence that the victim would be rescued.