{"id":44543,"date":"2014-06-11T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_missing_girls_expose_kidnap_capital_as_nigerians_pay_ransoms\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:30:02","slug":"bloomberg_missing_girls_expose_kidnap_capital_as_nigerians_pay_ransoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44543","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Missing Girls Expose Kidnap Capital as Nigerians Pay Ransoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four armed men ransacked Antony Akatakpo\u2019s home in front of his wife and two children in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, shot him in the leg and bundled him into the trunk of his Mitsubishi Endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>Akatakpo, the 34-year-old breakfast show presenter at Wazobia FM who\u2019s known as Diplomatic Akas Baba, was driven to a forest hideout and held blindfolded for a week, fed on plain bread and threatened with death unless his family paid a 10 million naira ($61,289) ransom. He said he was dumped on a city highway on March 20 after the gunmen received less than half the sum they demanded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was praying and calling on God to help me, rescue me,\u201d\u009d he said by phone from Port Harcourt, the hub of Africa\u2019s biggest oil industry in southeastern Nigeria. \u201cThey wanted to collect their own share of the money I was making for my family.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-06-10\/missing-girls-expose-kidnapping-capital-as-nigerians-pay-ransoms.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four armed men ransacked Antony Akatakpo\u2019s home in front of his wife and two children in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, shot him in the leg and bundled him into the trunk of his Mitsubishi Endeavor. Akatakpo, the 34-year-old<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44543\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,101,149,168,98,327,593,110,34,124,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-children","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-nigeria","category-personal-finance","category-teens-youth","category-theology","category-violence","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}