Some children of senior citizens who are expecting their parents to be paid their gratuities since they retired from Cross River State civil service 12 years ago have appealed that the payments should not be publicised. They have expressed serious fears that publicity of the payment could alert kidnappers and armed robbers to visit their parents and dispossess them of the funds, kidnap or even kill them. Kidnappings in the state have not completely abated despite stringent security measures by Governor Bassey Otu’s government. Over a month ago, kidnappers abducted a heavily pregnant woman in E…
