A Lagos based female evangelist (names
witheheld), recently kidnapped and gang raped by her abductors around Ogijo
area of Ikorodu Lagos, left everyone speechless when she told two of her
abductors arrested by the Lagos State Police Command that she had forgiven them
for their sins.
The traumatized evangelist who is still trying
to come to terms with her nine days despicable experience in the hands of nine
kidnappers, even went further to lay her hands on the arrested suspects,
advising them to turn new leaves in order to make heaven at the end of their
sojourn on earth.
The woman, as gathered, was abducted early this
month and kept in the kidnaper’s den; an uncompleted building in Ogijo,
Ikorodu, alongside other kidnapped victims, among whom was a Briton.
It was gathered that her abductors tore her
clothes into shreds and left her in her nude throughout her nine days
stay,where they had her in turns and at any given time.
While the dehumanizing act was on, one of the
kidnappers reportedly put a call through to the evangelist’s husband, demanding
for N20 million ransom.
But her husband reportedly dropped the sum of
N2 million in an undisclosed location the fourth day but did not have his wife
released to him as expected.
HOW SHE ESCAPED:
On the ninth day, Crime Guard was informed that
eight members of the kidnap gang drove out in two vehicles to collect a ransom
of N25 million, for the release of the Briton , at Caterpillar bus-stop, Ojota,
leaving one of them, (Emeka) behind, to guard their victims.
Moments later, the armed kidnapper was said to
had gone to the exhausted evangelist to ease his sexual urge. But he got more
than what he bargained for as the exhausted woman, in what could be described
as a miracle, flung him away, and he hit his head on the brick wall.
According to the woman evangelist who initially
bluntly refused to speak to anyone, other than the arrested kidnappers and
Police, “I do not know where the strength came from. But as he was about
penetrating… I pushed him and he hit his head on the wall and passed out.
Without caring whether I was naked or not, or whether I would be shot in the
process, I rushed out of the uncompleted building shouting for help. To my
surprise, I discovered that the building was even located among residential
buildings.”
It was learnt that one of the curious
sympathizers who gathered round her, gave her a wrapper to cover her nakedness.
Back inside the uncompleted building, the kidnapper, on regaining
consciousness, reportedly scaled the fence and fled, abandoning his AK 47 riffle,
apparently afraid that his escapee could have blown the lid.
An irate mob stormed the building later, where
the Briton was rescued and the duo taken to the Area N Command, Ijede.
Meanwhile, the rest members of the gang who had
earlier gone to collect the ransom for the release of the Briton at Ojota, met
their waterloo at the designated point of receipt.
Unknown to them, operatives of the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, who got wind of their escapades, intercepted them,
resulting in a gun duel which forced the kidnappers to abandon their loot and
escaped.
One of them identified as Emeka was, however,
arrested and he took the operatives to their hideout from where their victims
were discovered to have been taken to Area N Command, Ijede.
Police sources told Crime Guard that Emeka’s
confessional statement led to the arrest of another suspected member of the
gang known as Ikechukwu Ibe. In his confessional statement, Emeka exonerated
himself from the gang rape, saying: “I could not do it because she kept
shouting the name Jesus! Besides, when I discovered she was married, I refused
to take part. I even told my colleagues to let her be, since her husband had
already paid N2 Million. It was Sam, Innocent, Ikechukwu, Ugo and the rest that
raped her. She was kept permanently naked to allow them easy access. Sam is our
leader while Ikechukwu is his deputy. Ugo is the messenger and ‘pointer’. What
he does is to identify our victim after which we would intercept the vehicle.
My job is to alight from our operational vehicle, get the victim inside before
zooming off. At times, we kidnap our victims through information from their
drivers,” he said.
One AK 47 and one pump action rifle were
reportedly recovered by the policemen at the kidnappers den.
Source: Vanguard
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