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Breaking News: 80 year old kidnapped American missionary freed in Kogi

Per Second News has reported the release of the 80 year old kidnapped American missionary.

Banabas Attah, Per Second News, Lokoja---

American missionary Phyllis Sortor, who was kidnapped last month by masked gunmen in Kogi State, Nigeria, has been freed.

Security agents in Nigeria refused to provide details of her release, but said it involved some form of negotiations.

Per Second News report last month reveal that five men abducted Sortor, a missionary from Seattle with the Free Methodist Church, from her workplace February 23 and demanded a ransom of 60 million Naira ($301,500), and confirmed by Kogi state police Commissioner Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi said.

In a week long operation led by members of the Kogi Police and a team of FBI officials who flew into Kogi last week, the 80 year old American was released Friday after a long negotiation with the kidnappers.

Journalists in Kogi state had a spat with the American F.B.I agents  who refused Nigerian journalists from interviewing the released victim. 

At some point Sortor interacted with journalists telling them about her ordeal all through her period in captivity but was stopped abruptly by a member of the U.S FBI .

The 80-year-old missionary worker with Methodist Church resident in Emi-Woro community along Ajaokuta/Okene road was reported to have been abducted by unknown gunmen within the church premises recently.

 Kogi state governor, Idris Wada,  who was eagerly waiting to receive the American Missionary was disappointed as the aged woman was whisked away to Abuja by the U.S FBI team.

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