BY Johnbosco Agbakwuru

CALABAR—gunmen, Tuesday, kidnapped two school children of the same parents, while their mother, Mrs. Juliet Eko, was taking them to school. An eyewitness said three of the four gunmen were masked, except the driver.

The father of the children, Mr. Johnson Eko, who confirmed the incident on phone, said: “My wife and our three children were driving out of our street into the highway, when suddenly some people in a Vento Salon car accosted her; using their car to block my wife’s car.

“They came out pointing a gun at my wife and asked for her phone. When she handed over her phone, they then picked up our four-year-old daughter.

“The elder brother, Emmanuel, 10, asked why they were taking his sister away, they picked him up as well. It was at that point that the second child, aged 7, ran out of the car heading back to the house.”

Mr. James, a staff of Cross River State civil service, said he reported the matter to the Police at the Federal Housing Estate Police Division, Calabar.

However, the state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP John Umoh, said the report was yet to get to his office.

James said the kidnappers called at noon asking for N30 million ransom and that all appeal from the wife for them to take their car, a Toyota Siena, was rejected.