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Nigeria: Gunmen Strike Again in Rivers, Kidnap Three-Year Old Boy
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Vanguard (Lagos)
11 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
George Onah
Port Harcourt
A THREE-year old boy Tonye George has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen, while the child was playing with his mates around his father's compound in GeorgeAma, Okrika Council of Rivers State.
The father of the boy Daniel George said the abductors were demanding five million naira ransom for the boy's release. But George told Sunday Vanguard that he had not got that kind of money to pay. He pleaded with those holding his son to release him unharmed because, they, in the family, were just simple rural folks going about their lives. The distressed man said the boy was taken away on Friday evening.
Meanwhile, nothing has been heard about Mrs. Fidelia Chioma, mother of a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Golden Ngozi Chioma, who was bundled out of the classroom of a primary school where she teaches by gunmen on Friday.
Golden, who represents Etche Constituency, has equally appealed to the gunmen who abducted his mother to set her free, even as the police said nothing had been heard from the kidnappers of the woman. On Friday, six gunmen driving in a Lancer car zoomed into the premises of Oromenike UBE Primary School in D Line Port Harcourt and grabbed the mother of Golden, harassing the entire school and causing pandemonium in the process.
The woman was hurried into the waiting car, following which the gunmen pointed their rifles directly at the pupils and teachers, threatening to "level anyone who attempts to" stop them from taking away the legislator's mother. Sunday Vanguard learnt that before locating their target, the gunmen with bloodshot eyes jumped in and out of many classes, searching for Fidelia, who was oblivious of their presence in the school premises, only to be confronted by four gun toting youths who violently ordered her out of the room.
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