TWO SCHOOL CHILDREN KIDNAPPED IN CALABAR

Four unidentified gunmen yesterday kidnapped two siblings, ten and four years old, in Calabar, while the eldest child narrowly escaped. An eyewitness said that four gunmen, who wore masks, stopped the car in which the children were traveling on Murtala Mohammed Way around 7.30 a.m. and abducted them. They were being  driven to school by their mother, Mrs Juliet James when the kidnappers besieged the car.

The children’s father, Mr Johnson James, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Calabar. “My wife was driving out of our street with our three children when some people in a Vento salon car suddenly accosted them, using their car to block my wife’s car, the men came out pointing guns at my wife and asked for her phone. “When she handed over her phone to them, they picked up our four-year old daughter. “Her elder brother, Emmanuel, 10, asked why they were taking his sister away, they picked him up as well. “It was at that point that our third child, aged seven, ran out of the car and ran back to the house,” he said.

The kidnappers later called at noon demanding for N30m. He offered  them the family car, a Toyota Sienna, as a subsitute for the children's release but the kidnappers refused the offer.

The matter has been reported to the Federal Housing Estate’s divisional police office in Calabar.

Dear God please let these innocent kids be rescued alive.