A twenty-five-year-old lady
identified as Victoria Okocha, has given a chilling account of how she was
abducted by suspected herdsmen in the Isa-Ogwashi-Uku area of Delta state,
gang-raped and forced to drink the blood of another victim as water, while in
her captors’ den.
Vanguard reports that Okocha left
her home town in Ubulu-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government of the state last
Friday, July 10, and was heading for Asaba, the state’s capital. She boarded a
bus and while in transit, they sighted a fallen tree across the road at
Isa-Ogwashi.
Presuming that the fallen tree
was as a result of the heavy downpour the previous day, the driver kept moving
towards the direction of the tree until they discovered too late that it was
used to barricade the way.
''By the time the driver
attempted to reverse, it was too late as a man armed with a cutlass, hit his
side window in an attempt to drag him out of the vehicle. Passengers hurriedly
jumped out and ran into the bush in different directions. But I was unlucky
because I had cramps and fell. Another one got hold of me and dragged me into
the bush, while the driver who was inflicted with matchet cuts managed to
escape.
They took me far into the bush
and demanded N20 million ransom. When I told them my family could not afford
that amount because we are poor, they threatened to cut my breasts and plucked
out my eyeballs from their sockets if they did not get the amount. They were
five in number and spoke in Fulani dialect. Only one of them could speak
English. I was blindfolded and had my hands tied. Five of them took turns to
rape me that night.
When they contacted one of my
relatives, Afamefune, he begged that they reduce the amount and they agreed to
reduce it to N5 million. I stayed with them for two days before my people could
raise some money which was dropped at a designated place. They also collected
N2000 out of the N3000 cash I had in my bag.
In my weak state, I begged them
to give me some water to drink and they offered me blood. The blood was that of
a lady they kidnapped and murdered while I was there. They also drank out of
the blood.
Leader of the gang, who could
speak English, told me that their intention was also to kill me because my
family did not give them a reasonable amount. But he intervened by sending
other members away and told me to run away, showing me the direction to take. I
was able to locate the road, where I saw a vehicle that was heading towards the
direction of my village” she said
The victim said her family
members informed the state police about the incident.
The state police command is yet
to react to the incident but sources in the command said the command is working
to end the alarming rate of kidnap cases in the state.
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