Kidnappers Adbuct 4-Year Old Boy In Calabar

A 4-year old boy, Effiong Edet has been
abducted at the Ekorinim axis of Calabar,
the Cross River State Capital by the
hoodlums who raided the community in
an Audi car with a concealed car
registration number.
The kidnapers struck at about 8:30 pm on
Wednesday while the local vigilante
members, majority of whom are football
lovers were preoccupied with watching
the Chelsea match against Turkish football
club, Galataxary in the on-going
European league.
The gang which is said to specialise in
kidnapping children of kindergarten and
nursery school age, stormed Ikot Onim
for a victim and on arrival at the
community drove to Mr. Edet’s
compound, where they sighted the boy
and his friends playing around while his
mother was selling fried yam.
The hoodlums, our source said did not
have a target in mind but first attempted
to whisk away a six-year old boy
identified as Joseph, who strongly resisted
his assailants by crying and biting one of
the kidnappers on the hand which caused
them to abandon him and then swiftly
seizing Effiong whom they bundled into
their car and sped off.
Since most able bodied residents of the
area were busy watching the football
match, there was no one to go after the
kidnappers “By the time we got to hear,
what had happened, the boys had gone
far and besides there was no available car
to go after them.”, father of the
kidnapped boy, Mr. Edet, said.
The matter, the father said was
immediately reported at State Housing
Police Station, Calabar where the police
demanded for the photograph of the 4-
year old child to enable them carry out
investigations, assuring Mr. Edet and his
wife that the perpetrators will soon be
apprehended.
At press time, no ransom had been
demanded just as family sources said no
contact had been established with the
kidnappers.
When contacted, the state Police Public
Relations Officer, Mr. Hogan Bassey said
the police authorities were working to
rescue the victim without any ransom, “as
Junior’s father is a worker earning just
N6, 000 per month as security man”.