20 children kidnapped in Calabar in 3 months + Their tricks that parents should watch out for.

(on April 12, 2014 at 6:27 pm)

With over 20 kids abducted in three months in Calabar, the stories
surrounding their disappearance are like tales from the moon, but what
is happening to kids between the ages of three and six in the Cross
River State capital, is far from tales; they are real-life incidents
which are sending shivers down the spine of many parents.

Since February, men from hell have besieged the city, snatching
children suspectedly for ritual purposes or sale to barren women
around the city who allegedly pay triple digit amounts for the kids.

The Cross River State House of Assembly and the State Security
Adviser, Mr Rekpene Bassey, disturbed by the trend, raised the alarm
but this has not yielded any results. The police in the state are yet
to make arrest on the kidnapped children.

Describing the modus operandi of the abductors, Bassey said they would
position themselves in busy areas to watch out for parents who park
cars with children inside to abduct the kids. In other cases, the
thieves abduct children playing outside their residences. Others are
snatched while on errand or on the way to or from school. And in some
daring cases , the abductors snatch kids from parents while pretending
to offer them lift. The security adviser warned parents to beware of
child kidnappers and assured that security agencies had been placed on
the alert over the situation.

In one of the cases of child kidnapping which occurred on March 23, a
four-year-old, Nsew Udo Akpan, was snatched by abductors while playing
outside his home with his sister at Atekong Street, Biq Qua Town.
Another 4-year-old-boy, Effiong Edet, was abducted in Ikot Onim area
of Calabar by hoodlums who raided the community in an Audi car with
the number plate covered.

The kidnappers struck at about 8:30 pm on Wednesday March 12 while the
local vigilante members, majority of whom are said to be football
lovers, were preoccupied with watching the Arsenal match against a
Turkish football club in the European league.

The gang , on arrival at the community, reportedly drove to the Edets'
compound where they sighted the boy (Effiong) and his friends
playing.

The hoodlums first attempted to whisk away a six-year old boy,
identified as Joseph, who resisted his assailants by crying and biting
one of the kidnappers on the hand which caused them to abandon him .
Then ,they seized Effiong who they bundled into their car and sped
off.

In February, a three-year-old boy, Victor Offiong-Edem, was taken away
by unknown persons at the Assemblies of God Church, located at 14,
Nnamdi Azikiwe Street, Calabar South, during Sunday service.The father
of the boy, Mr Offiong Edem, a staff of the College of Health
Technology, Calabar, told Sunday Vanguard that he took his family to
the church on the fateful day. After the offering, he went to work and
left Victor in the company of his wife, Angelica, and his other son,
Samuel, but was later informed that Victor had gone missing".

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