KENYA: A PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN RESCUED FROM KIDNAPPERS IS REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY.

Record ID: 991245

  • Title: KENYA: A PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN RESCUED FROM KIDNAPPERS IS REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY.
  • Date: 4th May 1998
  • Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (MAY 3, 1998) (KTN-NO ACCESS KENYA) 1. MCU: ABDULKARIM POPAT ARRIVING HOME AND BEING HUGGED BY WIFE 0.17 2. GV: POPAT AND WIFE WALKING INTO COMPOUND, HUGGED AND KISSED BY RELATIVES 0.35 3. GV: HOUSE WHERE KIDNAPPERS WERE HIDING 0.39 4. MV: KIDNAPPERS BEING BROUGHT OUT OF HOUSE BY PLAINCLOTHES SECURITY OFFICERS/ KIDNAPPERS 0.54 5. GV/PAN: INTERIOR OF KIDNAPPERS' HIDE-OUT (2 SHOTS) 1.06 6. MV: PLAINCLOTHES SECURITY OFFICER QUESTIONING KIDNAPPER 1.11 7. GV: CROWDS GATHERED OUTSIDE KIDNAPPERS' HIDEOUT 1.17 8. MV/PAN: POLICE COMMISSIONER DUNCAN WACHIRA AND NAIROBI CID HEAD SWALEH SLIM WALKING TO DISPLAY OF RECOVERED ITEMS 1.26 9. CU: POLICE COMMISSIONER DUNCAN WACHIRA SAYING "THE FAMILY HAS ALSO BEEN VERY UNDERSTANDING, THEY OF COURSE HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THE KIDNAPPERS, THE KIDNAPPERS WERE DEMANDING FOR A RANSOM OF 50 MILLION SHILLINGS, WE COOPERATED AND TOLD THEM NOT TO GIVE ANY MONEY...WE WERE IN CONTROL AND DETERMINED NOT TO LET IT GO AND SET A PRECEDENT" (ENGLISH) 2.09 10. CU/PAN: DISPLAY OF RECOVERED AMMUNITION, CAR LICENSE PLATES 2.21 11. CU: EX-HOSTAGE ABDULKARIM POPAT SAYING "ONE MAN WAS ALWAYS ON GUARD BUT AT SOME POINT HE WAS SLEEPING AND I WAS AWAKE AND HIS GUN WAS LYING THERE AND HE SAID DON'T TAKE MY GUN AND SHOOT ME, SO IT WAS HUMOROUS AND WE WERE HAVING VERY NICE CONVERSATIONS...." (ENGLISH) 2.48 12. GV: KIDNAPPERS CAR OUTSIDE / DEAD KIDNAPPER'S BODY WITH ONLOOKERS AROUND IT (2 SHOTS) 3.12 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th May 1998 13:00
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  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
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  • Country: Kenya
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