Gunmen kidnap another educationist in Kogi

Gunmen on Thursday again kidnapped an educationist in Kogi State, Paulina Audu.

The victim, who is a retired headmistress, was abducted by gunmen at her residence at Nagazi , in Adavi Local Government Area of the state at about 5am.

Our correspondent  gathered that the victim was kidnapped as she was on her way for morning devotion in an unnamed church.

A source told journalists in Lokoja that Audu attended morning devotion in her church.

The source, who craved anonymity for fear of threat to her life, said the retired headmistress was coming out of her house to attend the devotion when the bandits,  who had led siege to her residence, suddenly emerged, pointed gun at her and bundled her into her vehicle in which the driver was waiting to covey the headmistress to church.

The gunmen were said to have dragged her driver out of the vehicle and driven the woman away to an unknown destination.

Police Public Relations, Kogi State Command, Mr.  Sola Adebayor, told our correspondent that he had not been briefed on the kidnap.

On Monday, some gunmen had kidnapped an 80-year-old American missionary, Rev. Phyllinx Sogor, who runs the Hope Academy Nursery and Primary school, Emi-Woro in Ajaokuta Local Government of Kogi State.

Sogor has not been released by her abductors, who had reportedly demanded N30m to free her.