Things are getting worst at every break of the dawn in Cross River State.
Patrick Obase was kidnapped and released on Sunday, the kidnappers came to his living house to collect and collected 3 million Naira before releasing him.
Patrick Obasse and the other 2 victims that were exchanged were kept together in the same room. However, when the kidnappers were going back to the Creeks, they kidnapped another man along the road.
However, just yesterday Godwin Oduma of 25 Nyong Edem Street was kidnapped at about 8pm.
Here is a kidnapped victim account of how he was taken hostage:
“I was kidnapped in the guise of an arrest. They 1st pretended like though they were taking me to the State CID. Then they pretended again to take me to airport police station. On reaching there, they sped off and took me to Jonathan by pass just after Federal Girls’ College. There is a footpath on your right that leads to a river.
There, I met another 6 other kidnappers waiting for us with a speed boat. From there I was taken to sea, then blind folded and taken to a mashy swampy island where they built a shanty house they used for their abilities”.
Another kidnapped victim account has it that: “I was returning from a political meeting when I was kidnapped by the wicked people. I was tortured with a hot cutlass placed on my back while my family were listening in on phone. I was taken to 8 Miles and straight along a bush part by WestEast gas station. There is a River from that axis and was taken to where I don’t know because I was blindfolded”.
From the foregoing, one can deduce that these kidnappers are using bush tracts for their nefarious activities. The police should suspect, stop and search any car going into a bush. Most of the bush paths should have police men watching out for miscreants.