Latest report reaching us on the three kidnapped young
kids in Abuja some days ago by their father’s driver indicates that the
kidnappers has made contact with the parents of the children and a ransom of
N250m (Two Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) demanded by the kidnappers..While
other information made available to us on the incident is being withheld by us
in order not to jeopardize and endanger the lives of the kids. From all indications,
the security operatives are fully on top of it and attempt is been made to
secure the children unharmed...
Below was our initial story when the news of the kidnap
was exclusively revealed by us..
A driver in Abuja has absconded with three of
his mater’s children.
The kids are:
Chinemere Anusiem (five), Okechukwu Anusiem (four) and Nzube Anusiem (two).
The driver,
identified as Godwin Tikia, has worked in the Anusiem household for about three
months before becoming the prime suspect in a suspected kidnap saga, which
happened on Thursday.
Very little is said
to be known about the suspect, but it was confirmed that he is a Tiv man from
Benue State.
His last known
permanent home address was an area located around Ogli’oko Secondary School,
North Bank, Makurdi.
He was said to have
picked up the children from school as he had done for the three months he had
been in the employ of the family.
This time, he did
so in the family’s new lemon grey Toyota Avensis, which had no registration
number.
The mother of the
three children, who recently gave birth to another baby, was too traumatised to
speak when our correspondent visited the family residence at Utako on Friday.
Her husband was not at home.
All Mrs. Anusiem
could muster strength to say amid sobs was, “I just want my children back home;
please, bring them back home.”
However, a
relative, who pleaded for anonymity, said, “Yesterday (Thursday) was not the
first time the driver will be going to the school to pick the children.
“Their mother just
put to bed about one week ago. If not, she could have gone there herself.
“When the driver
picked the children, he even called their father that he had picked them from
school and that he was on his way home. That was the last time they heard from
him.”
Asked whether there
was an unresolved dispute between the woman and the driver, the source said,
“She doesn’t have any issues with the driver.
“Up till now, we
have not heard from him; the car is a new one, if it is the car that he wanted
he would have taken it and left our children.
“The matter has
been reported to the police and the guarantor has been arrested.”