OBODO: KIDNAPPERS DEMAND €150,000

Nigeria midfielder Christian Obodo has been
abducted by unknown gunmen in Warri, Delta State.
The footballer was taken on Saturday morning
according to reports on SuperSport.com.
Obodo, who played at Lecce in Italy during the just
concluded season on loan from Udinese, was
reported to have gone to a night club on Friday night
in his car with registration number "Obodo 5" but
was picked up on Saturday morning in front of a
church in Effurun, a suburb of Warri.
"Yes he has been kidnapped," an unnamed Delta
State government official told SuperSport.com. "The
details are still sketchy but I was told he was on his
way to church this (Saturday) morning with his car
that has registration number 'Obodo 5.'"
"Apparently his car's registration may have attracted
his kidnappers because he went clubbing last
(Friday) night in the same car."
It is the first time a footballer is being kidnapped in
Nigeria. However, footballers' family members had
been kidnapped in the past.
"The kidnappers called this morning at the home of
the mother of Christian asking a ransom of about
150, 000 euros," Obidike Okechukwu, husband of the
sister of Christian Obodo, told ANSA.
"Christian was going to church, he was alone, around
four o'clock in the morning Italian time, when some
people took it and carried away."