Enyeama Escapes Kidnappers’ Net

Vincent Enyeama came close to being abducted for ransom while on holiday in Nigeria. The Hapoel Tel Aviv player returned to Israel recently to join up with his teammates for pre-season, but kidnappers broke into his house in Uyo a day later to find to their chagrin that the Nigerian international safe-hands had escaped their plans by 24 hours.

The would-be abductors asked for the goalkeeper from his cousin and a friend that they met in the abode on arrival. The friends name has been given as Dan, while a source said the name of the cousin was Tony.

Both were taken away, but released to days later at Ikono.

Enyeama, who was later thankful to God for little mercies over himself and his nuclear family, told Tidesports source, I was led by God to send my family to Lagos to stay with my sister for the last week of the holiday, and I left Uyo a day before they came, but they took my cousin.

They released him on July 17 when they found out that he had nothing to do with us”.

Fellow goalkeeper Austin Ejide has also been said to have narrowly escaped being abducted a few weeks before this, as football players appear to have become targets for the kidnap trade in the country.

The first high-profile case involving a football star happened last summer when Nornu, brother of Everton and Nigeria star, Joseph Yobo was kidnapped.