The baby
A six-month-old Nigerian baby has been kidnapped by his parent’s neighbours in South Africa.
A couple, believed to be Pakistanis, were said to have kidnapped
the son of Ifeanyi Jones, named Revelation, leaving the baby’s nanny
Veronica Kanda for dead . They also locked his six-year-old daughter in
the house.
According to a South African on-line
news
portal, iol.co.za, the couple was Jones’s tenants and could be on the
run with their three children, believed to be aged between two and six.
The couple was said to be in their early thirties and of average build,
while the
wife claimed to be seven months pregnant.
The abducted baby, Revelation, is small for his age, having been born
prematurely. He had minor surgery recently and was on medication.
On Tuesday, just after 5pm, a worried Jones opened the door to his
house and found Kanda (the nanny) lying in the hallway, covered in
blood.
“When I saw her, at first I didn’t recognise her, her face was so swollen,” Jones said.
For several hours he and his wife Khanyisile had been
phoning the nanny and the house, and no one had picked up the phone.
Kanda’s husband, Daniel Kanda, said his wife had told him the attack
had taken place early in the morning. She was carrying the baby when the
couple attacked her.
“They wrestled as the couple was trying to pull the baby from her; until she
fell
to the ground, and (the couple) started attacking her. They were
attacking her with shoes. The man tied a rope around her neck, that is
when she collapsed,” he said.
During the attack, Jones’s daughter said she and the tenants’ three children had hid under a chair in one of the rooms.
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She told her father that when the wife noticed her
watching them, she grabbed a pillow, pressed it against her face and pushed her into her parents’ room, locking the door.
“She saw them carry out her brother and lock the door,” said Jones.
Kanda was taken to hospital, where she is in a critical condition, with head injuries.
The tenants moved into the house on 5 December, last year.
The husband, who only gave his name as Bobby, told Jones that the family had come from Durban.
They had been staying at a nearby hotel, but said it had become expensive.
At the end of the month, the couple said they didn’t have enough money to pay the rent and asked for a few days’ grace.
Last week, the Joneses became suspicious when they noticed that
something had been added to their food that was cooking on the stove.
They later gave the food to the family, who they then discovered had
dumped it in the garden.
Jones suspects that they might have poisoned the food.
“I think now that their motive was to come and do harm,” he said.
Police
investigators are now searching for the Pakistanis, who have demanded a
R100, 000 ransom, a day after the two alleged kidnappers walked out of
Jones’s Bez Valley home with baby Revelation.
Police are investigating a case of kidnapping and attempted murder, appealing to anyone who may know the
Pakistani couple’s whereabouts to come forward with information
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