Unknown gunmen on Tuesday at Konga, an Akassa fishing community off the Atlantic coast of Brass in Bayelsa East senatorial district kidnapped, Mr. and Mrs Joel Kido, parents of a maritime businessman in the area. But Mr. Joel Kido, aged 65, father of the businessman was said to have jumped into the sea and escaped from his captors.
The armed gunmen, numbering about eight stormed the residence of the couples at 12 midnight while they were asleep and marched them to their waiting speedboat.
Mr. Joel managed to escape from his abductors but his wife was not that lucky as she was whisked away to an unknown destination.
