A 40-year-old female victim of kidnappers in Kwara State, Funmilayo Olatunji, has narrated how she escape from the den of kidnappers.<\/p>\n
Funmilayo, who was abducted alongside two others, luckily escaped from the kidnappers barely hours after her abduction.<\/p>\n
The three victims were abducted two weeks ago on Sunday at Eju town near Obbo-Ile, in Ekiti Local Government of the state.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with DAILY POST in, Funmilayo said \u201cwe were seated outside the house with one Pastor Tope of the Winners Church, at about 7am, when four gunmen approached us asking if they could get cigarettes to buy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI responded by telling them, we don\u2019t sell cigarettes and suddenly they brought out their AK-47 rifles.<\/p>\n
\u201cImmediately, I dropped my headphone under the chair I was sitting, with my handbag, but they were able to carry my handbag which contained some personal items.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust as the drama unfolded, another victim, a 20-year-old female called Blessing Jacob, strayed in and the three of us were abducted at gunpoint and marched into an unknown forest amid torture,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Funmilayo, disclosed that when they got to the forest, the gunmen then requested a ransom of N10m from each of the three victims.<\/p>\n
She said, \u201cThey enquired if I have parents and family who could be called to come to the rescue. I then asked Pastor Tope to call my husband and mother to inform them, but was not successful.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen my husband was reached at last, they demanded N30m for the release of the three captives.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt about 1.40am after walking for several hours through the forest, I started praying to God to set us free.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn opportunity opened up for us to escape but Pastor Tope rejected the attempt and so I left them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the course of my long trek in the bush, I came across one operator called Abraham, who told me to go straight toward Ona-Ora and not to branch anywhere again, from where a vigilante member picked me up,\u201d she narrated.<\/p>\n
She said the matter was reported to the police at Osi town but no action had been taken till the time of this report.<\/p>\n
Funmilayo further disclosed that the kidnappers later demanded ransom from the families of the remaining two victims, who eventually were forced to pay N200,000 for their release four days after their abduction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey also collected tramadol tablets and packets of cigarettes as part of the condition to secure their release,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
She identified the kidnappers as Fulani Bororo who spoke English and Yoruba languages fluently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 40-year-old female victim of kidnappers in Kwara State, Funmilayo Olatunji, has narrated how she escape from the den of kidnappers. Funmilayo, who was abducted alongside two others, luckily escaped from the kidnappers barely hours after her abduction. The three victims were abducted two weeks ago on Sunday at Eju town near Obbo-Ile, in Ekiti […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":258315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"0","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2682,64580,2149,339],"class_list":["post-269797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-escape","tag-funmilayo","tag-kidnap","tag-kwara"],"yoast_head":"\n