The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) has expressed deep concern over the safety of Messers Abdulgafar Alabelewe and AbdulRaheem Abdu, the Kaduna state’s correspondents of The Nation and Blue Print newspapers respectively, who were abducted last weekend.
The body was concerned over the prolonged silence from their abductors who seized the journalists along with members of their families, including wives and children.
According to the statement issued by NPAN and signed by its President, Kabiru Yusuf, “the trauma induced on both their biological and professional families by this condemnable event, are better imagined”
“Therefore, we call on the Federal Government to ensure the safe return of the journalists and their families, by deploying all the necessary security assets at its disposal.
“We stand in sympathy with the families as we pray for their safe return”, NPAN noted.
Meanwhile, NPAN has appealed to their abductors to ensure that none of them suffers any harm but they all return safely. .
