Kidnapped pastor, Yahaya Dikko of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Kaduna, has escaped from kidnappers\u2019 den.<\/p>\n
His escape is coming two months after he was abducted at Sabon Kurutu in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State.<\/p>\n
A community leader in the area, Mr. Makeri Danjuma Mohammad, who confirmed his escape, said the pastor\u2019s abductors refused to release him after collecting ransom and motorcycles worth N800,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Pastor Yahaya D Dikko of ECWA Church Sabon Kurutu in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State. He was kidnapped about two months ago. Ransom has been paid but the Kidnappers insisted that a motorcycle worth N800,000 must be brought before his release,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, the pastor escaped miraculously, adding that he had been taken to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kidnapped pastor, Yahaya Dikko of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Kaduna, has escaped from kidnappers\u2019 den. His escape is coming two months after he was abducted at Sabon Kurutu in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A community leader in the area, Mr. Makeri Danjuma Mohammad, who confirmed his escape, said the pastor\u2019s abductors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17624,3],"tags":[11057,218,550],"class_list":["post-461553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-securenorth","category-news","tag-elrufai-2","tag-kaduna","tag-kidnapping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/461569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}