WOMAN ESCAPES FROM KIDNAPPERS

         BY ESTHER EGBE

 

A middle aged woman Mrs Esther Adewale , recently escaped from  some group of abductors that kidnapped her on her way to Lagos from Abuja  for  the idel fitri.

Mrs Adewale   whose family members had earlier reported her  missing to the police, suddenly contacted her husband from somewhere in Makurdi, Benue state capital ,where she had being kept for eight days.

Speaking from her hideout for fear of being attacked again as the kidnappers are in possession of all her contact details, she said she was abducted at gun point when she was heading to the airport to catch the early morning flight to Lagos, ’I was accosted at about 6:10 am on Saturday by three gun wielding young men, they stopped in front of me and ordered me into  their car and headed toward Gwagwalada, they later told me to close my eyes and bow down my head, minutes later, I couldn’t discern where we were as they had turned off to bushy and unfamiliar road’.

Attributing her lucky escape to divine intervention, Mrs Adewale   implore the government to adequately  equip the Police and all other  security agencies to protect the citizenry. ’the government should equip the security agencies  to protect the people better as no one knows who is going to be the next victim and it is not everybody that will be lucky’.

Elaborating on her escape, she said, the two members of the gang that were detailed to watch over her fell asleep, as they were dead drunk the previous night. ‘I was only  able to navigate my way through the area to the motor park where  I contacted my husband through the aid of some people returning from their farms.