Gunmen abduct cleric, two worshippers in Benue

By Peter Duru, Makurdi
A senior pastor of the Universal Reformed Christian Church, popularly known as NKST, Rev. Dr Samuel Gbinde, and two members of his congregation have been abducted by armed men in the Andyar community in the Guma Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue State.
It was gathered that the cleric and the two victims were reportedly whisked from the pastor’s residence in the early hours of Tuesday and taken to an unknown destination by yet-to-be-identified gunmen who stormed the home in a commando fashion.
According to the source who preferred anonymity, “The armed men whose identity we cannot tell at the moment came very late at night and broke into the home of the past...