One of the six students abducted
from Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, said they made three
attempts to escape from their captors while they were held in the creek.
The victim, who chose not to be
named, said they made the decision to escape after the abductors collected
ransom from their parents yet refused to release them. He said on their first
attempt, they all agreed to run, but because they did not know the terrain
they decided to stay back so as not to endanger their lives.
Recalling the second attempt, he
said: "The second attempt was when we heard that they wanted to use
us for sacrifice to appease their gods, we all came together and said we were
going to run, but we could not make it out of fear."
The third attempt might have been
successful, except the father of the boy warned them of the dangers
involved and asked them to stay put when the hostage got hold of a phone and
called him.
The boy said: "On that
fateful day, the kidnappers had gone out, but the guard who was with us in the
camp had slept off. I went to where he was sleeping and took his phone to
call my father to ask if we could escape.
“When I called him, he was
surprised and warned us not to take such risk because we could get killed
in the process. Aside that, we did not care about the consequences in as
much we were out of the creek. But, again, we dropped the idea because one of
us was reluctant to support it, coupled with my father’s advice."
He spoke of how they were beaten
by their abductors when their parents refused to pay the ransom as promised.
"When they called our
parents to demand another ransom but our parents refused to bring the money as
promised," he revealed.
"That night, they brought us
out and started beating us and put their phone on speaker for our parents to
hear our cries. They also threatened to sacrifice us to their gods. The
night they beat us, one of us started vomiting blood while the second person
also fell sick.
"When the person they
assigned to guard us noticed the two of them, he immediately informed the
leader of the kidnappers who brought a nurse the following day to take care of
those who took ill.”
He said one of the sick boys only
got worse and another boy would pray for him to get better. This got him the
nickname "prayer warrior" from their abductors.
"When the kidnappers noticed
the way he prayed, they nicknamed him pastor. I was called the general because
I was the only one who confronted them when we were not satisfied with what
they gave us. Our first week in the creek was hell, we slept on palm
fronds. We also urinated and defecated in the open," the student said.
"But when our parents
promised to pay them, they started taking good care of us. They gave us Eba and
crayfish for two weeks, but most of the food they gave us was always their
leftover."
The victim told New Telegraph
that it was a bitter experience living in the creek for two months. He,
however, said when the kidnappers noticed that police were after them, they
were moved from Lagos to another creek in Ondo State.
"A week before we were
released, the kidnappers told us that we should thank the Ondo State government
for intervening in the matter. From then we didn’t sleep at night, we were
always praying for God’s intervention. A night before our release, the
leader of the kidnappers came into our camp and appealed to us that we should
forgive them for abducting us, that it was the situation of the country that
pushed them into crime. They promised never to return to our school again.
"Very early on the day they
wanted to release us, they gave us clean water to bath for first time and asked
us to prepare that they were handing us over to the Ondo State deputy governor
and the state commissioner of police who later brought us to Lagos."
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It is very unfortunate that fellow Nigerians that treat their yonngerones this way. What if any of this boys grow up to pay back back and fortunately it happen to any of this kidnappers child? Why have we not hear this type of similar stories from released Chibpk Girls if their kidnapped was real? May God save Nigeria.
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