Mrs.
Otiti Esegba, a 76-year-old grandmother, escaped from the den of her
abductors about five hours after she was abducted, Monday. She was
abducted at 2a.m. by a five-man kidnap gang at Akperhe community in
Olomu kingdom, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State and
taken away on a motorcycle to their den at Oviri Olomu.
Mrs. Esegba is the mother of the Managing Director of Ben-Segba Technical Services Limited, an oil servicing firm in Ekpan.
Same
day, a medical practitioner, Dr. Richard Kofi, a native of Okpare
community, also in Olomu kingdom was seized as he was entering his
clinic in Ughelli. He also escaped from his kidnappers.
Prior to
the Esegba and Kofi episodes, a lawyer, Mr. Omonemu, was kidnapped by
the gang and kept for 20 days before he regained freedom.
Mrs.
Esegba, whose pleas to the kidnappers to free her fell on deaf ears,
said she began to pray that God should make the two kidnappers guarding
her to fall asleep. She said they actually fell asleep. That was when
she ran.
The other three had left to go and abduct more victims, saying they needed more money.
She told Vanguard:
“At about 2a.m., while I was asleep, I heard a deafening noise but
before I knew it, two heavily armed men stormed into the house and
seized me after pulling down my door.
“Three others, also armed,
joined them and ransacked the house, took my jewelries, my clothes and
money. They started beating and hitting me with guns.
“Thereafter, I was dragged onto one of the waiting motorcycles, popularly known as okada. One sat behind me and the three others took the other okada. The one seated behind me held my mouth and I was blind-folded.”
When she escaped, a fisherman took her in.
She said: “He took me to his home at a place I later found out to be Oviri-Olomu, after hearing my story.
“At his home I found out that he was married to my niece. They clothed me as I was almost naked.”
“This man called my people at Akperhe at 6a.m. They came and alerted Oviri community leadership. That is my story.”
Culled from Vanguard
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