A Nigerian, simply identified as
Adenrele, with the Twitter handle @blastedup, has narrated his ordeal in the
hands of some suspected kidnappers on his way to his village in Ondo state.
Kidnapping has been on an
alarming rise in different parts of the country in recent times, a situation
President Muhammadu Buhari vowed to deal with as he begins his second term.
Note that many cases of
kidnapping reported recently have been usually linked with herdsmen as the
perpetrators.
Adenrele's story is, however,
different as, according to him, he and other involved family members were
rescued by a group of herdsmen, after being kidnapped and tied up by some
'hefty' men.
Read the full story in the Twitter thread below:
Let me share a kidnap story we
experienced two days ago in Ondo state. Listen folks, I don’t know about other
stories making round the news about herdsmen kidnapping people on the highway,
but they’re certainly not herdsmen.
This personally happened two days
ago along Owo-Ifon express way in Ondo state, we headed for this journey as
early as 7am, on getting to Ipele junction of that same axis after Elegbeka(for
those conversant with that route) at a pothole a group of hefty men numbering
about 4
Came from the bush, threw some
woods on the road before the pothole stopped us and ordered the four of us in
our car. May I chip in this,my uncle who was at the wheel already told us
before we started the journey how the rate kidnapping is on the rise. Infact
while on our journey
We listened to the news about a
LG chairman or who was shot by herdsmen along Ikire in Osun state who was
heading to Ibadan. Whenever we approached any pothole, he sped past without hesitating
if the car was gonna break down or if the tire would burst.
But at this particular Spot,
those hefty men already threw that wood so we won’t be able to go past it. They
came out, pointed heavy guns at us, left our car at that spot, these men didn’t
look like herdsmen, within me, I began to wonder if that would certainly be the
end, a whole lot of thoughts ran Through my mind, one of them led us with a
gun, the two were beside us at both sides, one behind us, all held on to their
guns firmly, we walked through the bush path for like an hour without getting
to any point where we were going to meet anyone.
We got to a stream, they stopped
and one of them said he was pressed he was allowed to go defecate, we were left
with 3 men. After walking that long, we were exhausted, we sat down with our
hands tied to our legs, at this point no I was already saying my last prayers.
They asked us if we had anyone
who was going to rescue us, don’t forget we’re yet to get to their “camp” as
alleged, we sat by that stream. But luckily for us,I sighted a little boy who
isn’t more than 10yrs old, looking tattered, on sighting this boy, he left and
my mind skipped
The other guy who went to
defecate came back and they cracked jokes, they untied us, at that point, they already
collected our phones, but I had my other Android phone in the car. I couldn’t
move at that point, they hit the gun on my butt. We came to a little hut.
Their leader was right there and
5 others were already kidnapped tied to trees. Mind you, I sighted a little boy
at that stream, not knowing the little boy traced and followed us. After
spending like 3hours with heavy torture at the hands of those criminals, that
little boy came
At this point with 7 men herdsmen
came with that little boy, they rescued us all. They were all speaking in their
language either they were making incantations I wouldn’t say, they collected
those guns and shot two men at the spot.
At this point I was literally in
heaven I didn’t know when I urinated on my body, the others fled including
their leader, they took their knives and cut those ropes. They led us through
the bush path till we got to Oriohin one other village along that axis. We took
a cab that brought us back to the spot where our car Was parked.
At this point,we don’t know if we
should continue our journey to the village or head back to Akure. I was
speechless all through the journey till we got to the village. When we got to
the village it was my uncle who narrated our ordeal at the hands of those
miscreants.
I just regained my sanity
yesterday. I don’t know about other kidnap happening across the country, but
ours wasn’t even herdsmen but hefty men who don’t look like herdsmen. As a
matter of fact,herdsmen were those that rescued all of us.
We were actually heading to the
village for Project. Those men rescued us without charging us a dime. They left
their own hut with their cows and when we got to that village where we took a
vehicle back to where our car was parked, my uncle gave them 20k from what he
had on him as part of the project money.
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