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The father of Mikel Obi, Captain of Nigeria’s national team, the Super Eagles, has been released from kidnapper’s custody some one week after he was abducted.
The kidnap makes it the second time the aging man has been abducted by miscreants.
State Police Public Relations Officer, to the Enugu State Police Command, Ebere Amaraizu confirmed the release in a statement issued on Monday.
Speaking, Amaraizu said in a statement that Pa Obi and his driver, John Ishaya, were abducted on Makurdi-Enugu Road on June 29.
“Michael Obi, the father of the (Super) Eagles captain, has regained his freedom,” Amaraizu said.
According to the police, Obi’s father was on his way from Jos, Plateau State, in a grey colour Toyota Prado Sports Utility Vehicle with number plate, MUS 604CG, when he was kidnapped.
He said the Eagles skipper paid a ransom of N10 million naira to obtain the release of his father, who is in his sixties.
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The kidnappers were said to have demanded a N10 million ransom from the Obi family before he was released.
Channels TV reported that although the elderly man was not hurt, he was however forced to walk for about five kilometres (three miles) barefoot in the heavy rain.
The release comes one week after he was seized at gunpoint, even after he was previously kidnapped in Jos in 2011.
Fully named John Michael Nchekwube Obinna, Mikel Obi is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chinese club Tianjin TEDA and the Nigeria national team.
He recently captained the Super Eagles to the 2018 FIFA World Cup currently going on in Russia where the team crashed out at the group level after losing to Croatia and Argentina.
