dont know if any of you have seen this story but the nigerian defenders brother has been kidnapped and held for 4 days now. usually contact is made for a ransom but so far there hasnt been any.

we take our safety for granted but this type of thing happens all the time in a lot of countries and we should be thankful our country is not as bad.

This happened to the Honduran lad who played for Birmingham last year. Palacios was it? The bandits in Honduras knew he had money so held a member of his family to ransom.

what was the outcome?

I'm not sure actually, I know they had them for over a month. I'll go and check Google now.

His 15 year old brother was released.

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/clubfootball/news/newsid=638242.html

thanks, hopefully it will work out the same for joey too.