Naspers’s MultiChoice TV Staff Kidnapped in Nigeria
Date 2010/3/2 14:47:31 | Topic: Afran
| Abuja, March. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Naspers Ltd.’s MultiChoice Africa pay-television unit said uniformed gunmen in Nigeria wounded one of its staff members yesterday and kidnapped three others outside Owerri airport in Imo state.
The crew members were abducted when the gunmen stopped their bus as it approached the airport in southeastern Nigeria, MultiChoice said in an e-mailed statement from Johannesburg today.
“The crew were forced to step out of the bus, as they stepped out one Nigerian cameraman reached for his mobile telephone and was shot in the leg by the gunmen,” it said. The wounded cameraman was taken to a hospital, while the three other employees were abducted, it said.
MultiChoice’s “contracted security company” and the Nigerian authorities are working to secure the safe release of Nick Greyling, an audio mixer from South Africa, Alexander Effiong, a Nigerian cameraman, and Bowie Attamah, a Nigerian commentator, the company said.
The crew is in Nigeria as part of a production for MultiChoice’sSuperSport, which covers Nigerian soccer matches, Caroline Creasy, MultiChoice’s head of corporate affairs, said in an e-mailed response to questions. Naspers is Africa’s biggest media company.
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