Trainer 're-kidnapped' in Nigeria
July 17, 2014
Witnesses told Deutsche Welle on Thursday that the director was returning to the town of Gombi in Nigeria's eastern state of Adamawa when he was again detained by four armed men.
He had originally been abducted on Wednesday in the Gombi area adjacent to Nigeria's restive state of Borno, a stronghold of the Islamist militia Boko-Haram.
The center's deputy director Samuel Gajere Zamani told DW in a telephone interview that in the latest incident the abductors had produced weapons and driven the captive away, seated between two of them on a motorbike.
An Adamawa state government spokesman said police investigators were being sent to Gombi.
The German Foreign Ministry confirmed that it was "aware of the case" but declined to comment further in line with its policy of not publicly discussing kidnappings.
Over recent years, more than 10 German teachers have helped run largely state-funded training centers in Adamawa to prepare youth for vocations such as carpentry and vehicle mechanics. Adamawa has a high level of youth unemployment.
State radio in neighboring Cameroon reported this week that Boko Haram fighters kidnapped two teenage children of a leading Muslim cleric from their home of Limani, near the border with Nigeria.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for either of the abductions.
ipj/tj (epd, DW, ap)