Gunmen, Wednesday morning, abducted a German, Mr. Fisch Nachi, in Gombi town of Adamawa State.
According to residents, the incident occurred at about 7 a.m. at Anguwan Faransa area of the town.
The gunmen were riding on motorcycles.
The man, who is said to be the principal of a technical skill acquisition centre in the town, was abducted on his way to work.
A resident of the town, who asked not to be named for security reasons who voluntered the information gave the name of the abducted German as Mr. Nachi.
“The abductors laid siege on his house, and they came on motorcycles. As soon as the man came out and was about to get into his car, two persons on foot approached him and pointed a gun at him. They now called the two other sets of people on motorcycles who approached them and they carried him away on their motorcycle,” the witness said.
“Almost everybody in this town knows him because he helps us a lot, especially in the area of repairing the town’s water bore holes. Most of the time he uses his own money to buy equipment and repair our boreholes,” he added.
He also said Mr. Nachi trains students on technical and vocational skills free of charge.
