The wife of Suleiman Abubakar, the Nasarawa state Chairman of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and three other women abducted along Gudi-Keffi Road on Wednesday, have regained their freedom.
ASP Samaila Usman, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Nasarawa told newsmen on Friday in Lafia that the victims were released by their captors at 9:45 pm on Thursday.
Usman attributed the release of the victims to sustained pressure from the search party deployed by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Bola Longe.
He said that all the victims, including the wife of the journalist and wife of a former state lawmaker, were all National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members.
He said that they had all been reunited with their families.
However, the chairman of the correspondents chapel told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that he paid ransom to secure the release of his wife.
According to him, the abductors called him, using his wife’s cellphone and…
