Hopes fading for kidnapped taxi-driver Baker
Stabroek News
January 27, 2004
Hopes are fading for kidnapped taxi-driver, Kwesi Baker as leads have grown cold and his whereabouts remain a mystery.
Baker, 25, of Lot 42 Craig Street, Campbellville was snatched from a car on December 4 while on Lamaha Street and bundled into another by two men.
Since then his relatives have not heard from the abductors and on Sunday one of them told this newspaper that everyone has virtually given up on him.
According to the relative, who is also a taxi driver, the family has made checks all around for Baker who was attached to the Comfort Zone Taxi Service at the time of his abduction but got no word.
"Nobody knows where he deh and right now everybody feels he already dead. Dem already kill he," the relative said.
There has been no demand for ransom. Stabroek News was told that one of Baker's relatives was also being targeted for abduction. The young man has since gone into hiding.
The police had said Baker was abducted at around 6:15 pm while on Lamaha Street between Vlissengen Road and De Abreu street. He was travelling in a friend's car HA 9334, which is also registered to Comfort Zone when a gold-coloured car overtook it and then turned around and blocked its path. A man emerged from the car and ordered Baker out of his and then sped away with him.
His relatives had told this newspaper that Baker had received numerous death threats a few months before his abduction.