Mikel's Father Found In Nigeria
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August 24, 2011, Wednesday
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THE kidnapped father of Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel was freed on Monday after detectives traced him to a sprawling city in northern Nigeria and arrested his abductors, the country's federal police said.
Police spokesman Olusola Amore said that investigators followed Michael Obi's trail from central Nigeria's Plateau state to Kano, one of the nation's largest cities. There, officers raided the area where Obi was held, freeing him and arresting his kidnappers, Amore said.
Obi himself, looking worried and disheveled, appeared at a hastily-arranged news conference on Monday night at a police station in Kano, about 1,150 kilometers from the country's commercial capital of Lagos. "I was taken right deep into the bush, in an isolated area in Jos," Obi said in a brief statement to journalists. "I started begging them, yet they beat me mercilessly, kicking me with their boot. They are five of them and they were dressed in military uniforms."
Officers said they had launched an investigation to see if the accused were soldiers.
Police spokesman Olusola Amore said that investigators followed Michael Obi's trail from central Nigeria's Plateau state to Kano, one of the nation's largest cities. There, officers raided the area where Obi was held, freeing him and arresting his kidnappers, Amore said.
Obi himself, looking worried and disheveled, appeared at a hastily-arranged news conference on Monday night at a police station in Kano, about 1,150 kilometers from the country's commercial capital of Lagos. "I was taken right deep into the bush, in an isolated area in Jos," Obi said in a brief statement to journalists. "I started begging them, yet they beat me mercilessly, kicking me with their boot. They are five of them and they were dressed in military uniforms."
Officers said they had launched an investigation to see if the accused were soldiers.
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