Relatives of twenty-year-old Vivickanan Nandalall made a futile search for him in the Eastville area yesterday after his alleged abductors called the family with a tip on his whereabouts.

Up to press time last night there was no further word on if he had been found.

Relatives yesterday told Stabroek News that a man called and informed them that Nandalall was in Eastville on the East Coast. However, with the help of the police, the relatives scoured the entire area during the morning but found no sign of the young man for whom a ransom had been paid.

A relative also said that yesterday the police received a tip that the man could be found in the Bare Root area but this also proved to be false.

Yesterday, a number of relatives and friends gathered at the man’s Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara, home waiting to hear if he had been released.

Nandalall, a taxi driver, has not been seen by his family since last Thursday night after someone called his base and requested that he make a pick-up. After his car, PGG 3846, was found abandoned on the railway embankment at Annandale, a call was made to his cell phone and relatives were informed that the man had been kidnapped and was being held in the Buxton back dam.

The relatives paid a $1 million ransom early Saturday morning after the kidnappers promised that the man would have been released but this was not to be.

On Saturday the police issued a release stating that they were on the hunt for a number of men who they believe could assist them in the kidnap probe.

The persons included, Albert Andrews aka `Donny’, Roger Bunbury aka `Don Dick’, Marvin Archer aka Marvin Peters or `Skittle’, Royston Peters and Rondell Rollins aka `Fine Man’. The police said the men are believed to be hiding out in Buxton and surrounding areas.

The police advised the suspects to contact the police authorities immediately, either in the company of an attorney or someone else, “failing which they would have to face the long arm of the law.”