Victim Recounts His Experience In Kidnappers Den, How God Delivered Him

By  Ayodele Charles.

A victim who graciously escaped from the kidnappers’ den, Mr. Ademola Adeeko, has narrated his experience in the hands of the kidnappers with the pinpointnews.

Mr. Adeeko who is into clothing business said he was somewhere around a particular sawmill at Aisegba-Ekiti where he has been doing his business for over five years now before the kidnappees came in the evening of Wednesday, 8th June, 2022 , at about 5:00 O’ Clock and started shooting sporadically.

” I started hearing the sound of gun shots and people were running for the safety of their life. Even me, I had to run for the safety of my dear life without knowing that the kidnappers had plotted themselves strategically around the area. They had already laid siege in the direction I was running towards. So sighting them, I fell in the process and unfortunately, I was caught”.. 

Continuing, “I was the first person they caught and whisked away by the kidnappers. But looking back, I now discovered that one Hausa guy that was into timber business was also caught. It wasn’t up to ten minutes that they shot that Hausa man to death along the way. I now interrogated the one that was communicating with the man in Hausa language that why did he kill the man? 

“He now said that he was killed because he complained that he couldn’t trek and that he’s not having money. I heard the gun shots three times. They now told me that if I could cooperate with them, that I would return to my family in peace but if otherwise, that they would kill me the way they killed the Hausa man”.

Recounting further,, Adeeko said,  the kidnappers who were seven in number with four of them armed with AK 47, took him to unknown destination in the forest having trekked for over eight hours in the bush.

“Around past 3:00 O’Clock the following morning, we had to stop inside one cocoa plantation. The place was really bushy as if the owner of the cocoa plantation has abandoned the place for like ten years. They now tied my hands to the back and also my legs inside that cocoa plantation”

Talking of his agony, “It wasn’t a smooth journey at all. Walking in the bush for over 48 hours bare footed with serous beating every second without giving me food or water. Immediately I was kidnapped, they dispossessed me of everything found on me. They collected my phone, they took some of the wears I sell and all the money found in my pockets. When it was around 3:00 O’Clock in the afternoon, they on my phone, asking for the network I use and I told them that I use both MTN and GLO Network”

“They now said it’s Artel that usually have full network in that area but they still managed to use my phone in spite of the unstable network in that forest to reach out to my family. While calling my family, they began to beat me again for my people at home to hear how I was being tortured and to feel the pains I was passing through. In the course of all that, they actually demanded for hundred million naira ransom”

“I started pleading with them, telling them that I am just a petty trader, that if I have had such money, I would have been running a standard boutique instead of moving about to sell the clothes. They insisted on collecting the hundred million naira. I kept begging them to accept two million naira but they said no. The leader of the gang said they’re seven in number apart from some other people out there that were aware and involved in the deal. He said those people would equally get their own share of the money. They later switched off my phone and we continued trekking again. 

“As God would have it, on the third day while still in their midst, the seven of them slept off and I escaped. That’s how God delivered me”. The victim explained.

Meanwhile, Ekiti State Police Command, through its PPRO, DSP Sunday Abutu, had on Saturday,  2nd July , 2022, issued a press release, confirming the arrest of two notorious kidnap kingpins.

The statement reads, “after a long drawn escapade, the long arms of the law has finally caught up with two kidnap kingpins, one Alhaji Abashe Adamu Idris and Ibrahim Mumini Toyin, who were arrested in Ido-Ekiti on 29/06/2022.

“The duo coordinated numerous highprofile kidnappings in Ekiti including the kidnapping of one Adeeko Ademola and Nasiru Salisu at Adamsy Sawmill, Aisegba-Ekiti.”.

The Command Rapid Response Squad in synergy with the vigilantes, acting on credible intelligence, arrested the duo.

During interrogation, Ibrahim Mumini Toyin confessed to the commission of the crime and claimed that the dastardly act of kidnapping and murder of one of the two victims was carried out by himself and four(4) others who are children of Alhaji Abashe Adamu Idris and are currently at large. He further confessed that Alhaji Abashe Adamu Idris is their kingpin, adding that the ransom collected from their victims was used to purchase cattle by Alhaji Abashe Adamu Idris to increase his herd of cattle. 

 Ibrahim Mumini Toyin disclosed that his own share of the ransom allegedly paid was used to purchase cattle for him by Alhaji Abashe Adamu Idris.

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