American Missionary kidnapped in Kogi state

An American missionary in Nigeria has been kidnapped in what authorities call a "purely criminal" act. five men kidnapped the woman from her workplace and are demanding a ransom of 60 million Naira ($301,500).
The woman whose name is Rev. Phyllis Sortor, a missionary based at the Hope Academy compound in Kogi state was kidnapped on Monday. She runs a nongovernmental organization that educates nomadic Fulani children, and she is the financial administrator of Hope Academy.

The commissioner said five men scaled the wall of the school where Sortor's office is and "whisked her away," jumping back over the wall and fleeing to the nearby mountains. Two of the men were masked, and they fired shots into the air to scare people away during the kidnapping.

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