{"id":28798,"date":"2020-08-16T16:17:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28798"},"modified":"2020-08-16T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:18:03","slug":"kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped Chinese workers regain freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Four Chinese Nationals who were kidnapped in Akamkpa local government area of Cross River State have regained freedom after being in captivity for 22 days.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were kidnapped at gun point by unknown gunmen at Danatrite Construction Company where they work in Oban community.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that a Police Sergeant, Ifere Sampson who was securing the company was shot dead before Kan Jinxi, Hujinchang, Jiang Jijun and Cheng Qing, were whisked away by their abductors in the early hours of Wednesday, July, 29th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the release, the Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO) in the state DSP Irene Ugbo said with the support of the state government and other security agencies, the Chinese regained their freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Ugbo said, \u201cThe Police and other security agencies in collaboration with the State Government have secured the release of the Chinese Nationals in Akpabuyo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Four Chinese Nationals who were kidnapped in Akamkpa local government area of Cross River State have regained freedom after being in captivity for 22 days. The victims were kidnapped at gun point by unknown gunmen at Danatrite Construction Company where they work in Oban community. It was gathered that a Police Sergeant, Ifere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":28799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1185],"class_list":["post-28798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-china-nigeria-relations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kidnapped Chinese workers regain freedom - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Four Chinese Nationals who were kidnapped in Akamkpa local government area of Cross River State have regained freedom after\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kidnapped Chinese workers regain freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Four Chinese Nationals who were kidnapped in Akamkpa local government area of Cross River State have regained freedom after\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-16T16:17:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-16T16:18:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/girk__01.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Kidnapped Chinese workers regain freedom\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-16T16:17:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-16T16:18:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom\"},\"wordCount\":147,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/girk__01.png\",\"keywords\":[\"China-Nigeria relations\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kidnapped-chinese-workers-regain-freedom\",\"name\":\"Kidnapped Chinese workers regain freedom - 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