Imtiaz Sooliman – on the alleged kidnapping of SA journalist

Well, in breaking news, a South African journalist has just

reportedly been kidnapped in Syria. And for more details on the

kidnapping, we're very pleased to be joined on the line by Doctor

MTR Suleiman of the gift of the givers to shed more information on

this matter, doctor, a very good morning to you. Can you confirm

indeed, that a South African journalist has been kidnapped in

Syria.

Yes, it was on Tuesday evening. He was on his way out from a place

called darcosh. There was a Turkish border. People from

hospitals were linked to me, but exporting him out of the country.

It's normally a very safe route. The ambulance is normally travel

on that route to the Turkish border. Suddenly, from nowhere,

two cars stopped the car that was carrying him, and they took them

in our car and tried the car followed from another place, one

hour away. They then took a South African person to ask Mohammed,

and when the other two Syrians asked him, What are you doing with

him? I said, No, it's nothing serious. We just want to clear

some misunderstanding and will return him in two days. That was

supposed to be on Thursday, but till now, we have not heard from

him or from them. Doctor, I couldn't really make out what you

were saying there, because I can't hear you. But do we know how and

why the journalist was kidnapped, and can you verify at this stage

which organization he works for?

He he was doing a independent photographer. He was doing a photo

shoot in Syria. He works for himself. And he was he was honest.

He was there for five days, and then was getting ready to leave

the country. So he was taken by a group, and we're not sure which

group that, but we know when he was stopped, the people who who

were taking him, they were people from my hospital, from the

Catholics hospital. They told them not to worry. It's not dangerous.

It's just a misunderstanding. So we don't know why he was taken and

what the reasons are. We are still waiting for that. Alright, and

Doctor, I understand you are on your way. Are you on your way to

go and negotiate? What is your role in this whole matter Cape

Town? This is a Cree arranged trip to Cape Town, and this happened

suddenly. So I have teams on the ground. I am directly involved

with them. I'm glad you know what to do, but I have a very strong

team inside Syria. We have 200 people working for us, so we quite

set aside that we will achieve some success in the next few days.

Thank you so much for that. That is Doctor MTS Suleiman. He is, of

course, the CEO of the gift of the givers, and he's just giving us

some information on what has happened around the use of a South

African journalist that has just been kidnapped out in Syria the.