The father of the rescued 11-year old boy, Chidera Nwankwo from kidnappers den in Aba, Abia State, Evangelist Remigius Nwankwo has expressed thanksgiving to God for his mercies.
The founder of Jesus New Foundation Ministry, Akwuke, Enugu, he is believing God that his two and six months old son, Chimeremeze Nwankwo, who is still in the kidnappers’ den, will be found, declaring that:
“I am serving the Living God and my child will not miss.”
Chidera and his younger brother, Chimeremeze, were kidnapped by an alleged nursing mother and a young man, who posed as miracle seekers only to turn out to be conmen that abduct children for ulterior motives on Wednesday.
Luck, however, smiled on the Nwankwo family as Chidera was discovered in Aba, Abia State and had since returned to the family but the younger boy, is yet to be found.
Speaking to our correspondent on the unfortunate incident, Evangelist Nwankwo who had already assembled prayer for prayers, told The PUNCH that since he was serving the living God, he is optimistic that his younger son would be found like his brother.
“I am optimistic that I’ll see my son again because I am serving the living God. I am not a gentile. I am only asking God to do three things for me, that his abductors will not kill him, that they will not sell him and that they will not use him for sacrifice or ritual,” he said.
Narrating how he came back from his ministry last Wednesday and did not see two of his children who left the ministry with their mother who had left the prayer session to go to the market, said that nothing was impossible for God to do.
According to him:
“When I returned in the evening, I did not see my children who left where we were praying to go to the market. I asked in the whole neighbourhood but my children were nowhere to be found. I even went to where we lived before but they said they did not see them.
“It was then I knew that there was trouble and I went and reported to the police when my wife told me that she left them in the house before going to the market.
“She told me of her encounter with a certain lady and a young man who approached her and said that they were looking for a man of God to pray for them to recover her brother’s vehicle that was stolen where it was parked.
“She told them that she would take them to where I do ministry work and even gave them my phone number but they chose to wait for her to return from the market. It was then she offered to take them to the ministry but lady said she was wearing trousers and would not go to church dressed like that and with that she left for market not knowing that they made away with her children,” he laments almost crying again.
The man of God also narrated how his son, Chidera was discovered in Aba, Abia State where the kidnappers took him and his brother to.
“On Thursday, around noon, my wife brought the phone to me and told me that it was Chidera calling and that he was calling from Aba.
“We told the person that saw my son to hand over the boy to one of my wife’s sister that live in Aba and that was how we saw Chidera again who told us that the kidnappers took away his brother on a motorcycle when he started shouting and in order not to attract attention, they zoomed off with the younger boy.”
Rescued Chidera, a primary four boy with Army Children’s School, Enugu, narrated that the kidnapper whom he had seen with their mother before, came to him and said that he should come and collect what his mother bought from the market and when he wanted to drop his younger brother, they persuaded him to take him along which he did.
According to him, the only thing he could recollect was when they put them in Keke and took them to New Garriki where they sell cows and that was the last thing he knew until he saw himself in Aba.
“They took us to a hotel in Aba and bought us rice and in the morning the following day, they brought us Bobo fruit juice which I refused and started shouting that they should allow me and my brother to go home.
“It was then the man gave me two hundred naira to go and buy something and while I was moving from shop to shop crying, somebody, a Keke man took me to a woman that kept me in her house until somebody else came and took me to her house where my father found me and returned me to Enugu,” he narrates.
