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Two children of an oil worker have been kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger Delta oil city of Port Harcourt, police reported on October 21.
The children were abducted while being driven to school in the Abuloma area of the city and taken to an unidentified location, said a police spokeswoman for Rivers state, which has Port Harcourt as its capital. "They were kidnapped this morning by gunmen who were in a black jeep. They are a boy and a girl aged between 7 and 9, children of a Nigerian Shell worker," the spokeswoman said.
Kidnappings are widespread in the Niger Delta, especially since armed groups looking for greater control of the area's natural prosperity began a campaign of sabotage against the oil industry in early 2006.
The breakdown in law and order has been advantageous for the criminal gangs, as they fund themselves through a profitable trade in stolen oil and recurrently kidnap local businessmen, expatriates and politicians or their relatives, for ransom. According to Police, no group had yet claimed responsibility for the most recent abductions.
The kidnapped children were let go without harm after money changed hands, according to private security sources. In the last two years, approximately twelve children of local oil workers and politicians, including toddlers, have been kidnapped in the Port Harcourt area.
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