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J. Agith Kamaraj.K. MohandasP. Vinoth 
J. Agith Kamaraj.K. MohandasP. Vinoth 
J. Agith Kamaraj.K. MohandasP. Vinoth TIRUNELVELI: The despondency that enveloped Vadakkankulam, a small hamlet about 70 km from here, after three of its citizens were abducted by unidentified gunmen at Nigeria on Friday, vanished suddenly on Tuesday morning when families of the hostages heard the voice of their breadwinners saying that they had been freed unharmed. “We thank the Almighty for hearing and immediately answering our prayers. I’ll not send my husband back to that country anymore,” said a jubilant Subitha Rani, wife of Ajit Kamaraj, one of the hostages, who along with P. Vinoth and K. Mohandoss, was kidnapped when they were working at FPSO Mystras, a crude oil production vessel working 28 nautical miles off the coast of Bonny from Port Harcourt in Rivers State of Nigeria. Though Ms. Subitha, a B.A. graduate from Marthandam in Kanyakumari district, had earlier heard about frequent kidnapping of personnel working for foreign oil companies by armed groups of Nigeria for ransom, she allowed him to go there three years ago. “I put all my trust on the God and allowed my husband to go to the African nation. Now the trust and faith have ensured the safe release of my husband and his colleagues.” Like Ms. Subitha, the wife of Mr. Mohandoss, Radhika, is also not for sending her husband to Nigeria anymore. “The trauma and agony I underwent for more than nearly 72 hours with my daughters aged 14 and 7 after the news reached here, cannot be expressed in words. Since the demand for oil industry workforce is high worldwide, he can get a job in some other safer place,” Ms. Radhika says. Mr. Vinoth’s younger brother, Kenneth Anderson, who is also working for an oil company at Equatorial Guinea, says that working in a place like Nigeria would always be a challenge due to the free availability of firearms in the market. “Especially after the locals started raising a banner of revolt against the foreign oil companies and demanding employment only to Nigerians, the situation is still tough to deal with. So I’ve started looking for a new place for my brother,” Mr. Anderson says. After a medical check-up, the freed hostages have been kept under the custody of their company. “They are expected to reach Thiruvananthapuram airport at 8 p.m. on November 1,” said J. Sudharshan, younger brother of Mr. Ajit Kamaraj. Union Minister thankedThe families also thanked the Union Minister for Home, V. Radhika Selvi, for taking the issue with the Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs, Vayalar Ravi, and the Prime Minister’s Office to find an early peaceful solution.
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