There are conflicting reports on the case of Filipina businesswoman Josiebeth Foroozan whom the Nigerian Police reported had been abducted in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt as she got out of her car on February 7, 2007. But her abduction has been denied by a Foreign Affairs official in Manila, Philippines.
The report of a kidnapped Filipina businesswoman was posted on the Nigerian expatriates website Oyibos Online on 07/02/2007 and someone claiming to be her daughter even posted the following SOS on the website.
"07/02/07 at 06:15 PM
hi this is farzaneh (beths daughter) my mother beth is the filipina woman kidnapped. heres the story my dad;s iranian ok..he picked me and my bro up from school at 12.20..but school closes at 2.40. on the way out he said Mom is missing...weve been calling ppl lots...her phones are unavailable and unreachable..she went to the bank at 10am..she didnt reach the bank because the bank ppl said she didnt go there...time passed...we went to several places (sorry i dont feel its safe to mention who we visited and wher we went)..but around 3 we got home..dad said that at 10.27 my mom gave him a miss call..he tried caling her back lots of times it didnt answer.after an hour it was unavailable. then around 10.30 also she called the house line and my mom's cousin answered it...she said that she didnt hear my moms voice but she heard the voice of a man! but she couldnt get what he was saying. so mom was trying to contact us!but we couldnt reach my mom... about an hour ago, while i was sitting with my dad and his friend and someof mom's friends who came to visit, suddenly my moms fone called us! i answered it..i heard strong wind..then i heard a man like a robot saying -i have your woman- i was soo scared i was crying i put the phone down. wen he called again my dad spoke to him..he said-if you call the police or embassy you wont c ure wife again-...my dad said let me takl to my wife see if shes okay.. later dad told us that mom said that at the junction before the bank, they stopped her car, they put somthign on her nose and made her unconcious. then they put her in a bus then into a speed boat and shes now in a swamp...she deosnt know where the car is..thank God mom is fine! the kidnapper said he will call back later..til now, no news. mom drove alone..in her sports car mercedez with only two sitters...mom is the FIRST woman to be kidnapped here..now they started with women? why mom!!! i want her back! safe!! this is the first time in my life i see dad cry..me and my little brother who is only 11..we want mom back so much! oh God...why? EFF this place!! by the way, im 13yrs old...its hard for me too..."
(From Oyibos Online, http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/chiefoyibo/vpost?id=1686904)
Is this 13 year old girl not the same daughter of the Josiebeth Foroozan that the Nigerian Police reported was kidnapped on February 7, 2007? Or there has been a false report?
The Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Ernesto Conejos in the Philippines confirms that Nigerian police reported on February 7, 2007, that Josiebeth Foroozan had been abducted in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt as she got out of her car. But, an Associated Press (AP)report on(http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/09/asia/AS-GEN-Philippines-Nigeria.php) confirmed that Mr. Conejos has also stated that "the woman boarded a plane from the Nigerian city of Lagos bound for Frankfurt the same day that she was reported kidnapped and arrived in the Philippines three days later. He cited airline and immigration records showing that she arrived back home."
"What happened was not a kidnapping case. After 30 days of the alleged kidnapping, nobody has come forward to claim the kidnapping or make demands for her release," Mr. Conejo said. And concluded that the National Bureau of Investigation will investigate the case of Josiebeth Foroozan.
Has there been a mistake or a deliberate denial by Manila to refute the Nigerian Police report of this incident?
Posted March 9th, 2007 by MichaelChima
This is not a kidnapping issue, all Filipino worker here in Nigeria knows the Truth. If she really kidnap. Why? Her passport and plane ticket is along with her that time. Means no criminal activity involved. In fact she is in - out in Nigeria. We do not know what magic she has.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines reaction, I think was just based on the details they had collected from the bureau of immigration in the philippines that josiebeth had arrived in the philippines 3 days after the kidnapping.
What they did not know was.."what happened during the kidnapping moments until josiebeth was finally sent back to the philippines." anyway, the kidnapping was proven to be real based on the evidences that have gathered in nigeria and the kidnappers were not the nigerian militants fighting for the government but a group of criminals paid to do their job"
I think in fairness to josiebeth, the department of foreign affairs with the Philipine embassy in nigeria should publish the report that there was really a kidnapping.