Kidnapping: Editor Recounts Close Shave in Lagos




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Kidnapping: Editor Recounts Close Shave in Lagos

“Wow! What a close shave!” That was all a former Style Editor with The Compass Newspapers, Ronke Kehinde, could say after a narrow escape from suspected kidnappers in Ikeja, Lagos.

Drugged and driving almost unconsciously through Ikeja, with three assailants on her trail, Mrs Kehinde, the wife of newsmakersng.com publisher, Dipo Kehinde, got off the hook in what she described as a miraculous escape.

This is her story as presented in a Church testimony on Sunday:

It was like a scene from the movies, I was waylaid by strange men last Wednesday.

I was on my way home from the Computer village, Ikeja; driving towards the bridge, near Ikeja General Hospital. There was a holdup due to the traffic light under the bridge. Then, a lady appeared from the blues with flyers in her hand. She was by the passenger’s window, but her hands were already inside my car, holding the flyer to my face.

She said, “You can buy landed properties by paying in installment.”

A view of the flyer

I wasn’t actually interested, but I took the flyer because I wanted her to go so that I could drive. At this time the traffic light had turned green. I took the flyer from her and dropped it on the passenger seat beside me.

As soon as I moved, I noticed something strange. My eyes were peppery.  I immediately took the flyer and threw it on the floor of the car because I wasn’t sure if what I was feeling was as a result of the flyer, or maybe it was coming from the surrounding.

I took the roundabout turn, beside the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH); then I connected the flyover near Awolowo house. As I continued to drive, I was feeling so dizzy and uncomfortable. My face was peppery.

As I was getting close to Guinness, I noticed a light brown car following me. There were three men in the car. Anytime they get to my side, in the traffic, they will all look at me intensely.

It was at this point I realized that it was a set up. Although I was uncomfortable, I was conscious of my environment.  While driving I stuck my head outside the window, so I could get fresh breeze. I was choking.

Those guys were expecting to see an unconscious woman or one who is struggling to remain conscious. The lady that gave me the flyer must be working with them.

When they noticed that I was fully conscious because I was looking at them, they stopped following me.

When I got home and told my husband, he opened the same flyer, the effect of whatever it was laced with was still very potent. His eyes became peppery. He wrapped the flyer in a cellophane bag. He said that he would like to get someone to do a forensic analysis of the substance on it.

I’m sharing this so that all motorists will be aware and be careful. Kidnappers are using different techniques to get their victims.

When we shared this experience with some close friends, someone told us through a WhatsAppmessage that the flyer could have been soaked in a potent street drug called Burundanga (also known as Scopolamine), which criminals now use to incapacitate victims before attacking them

:oNIGERIA! !!!!

Everybody should try. And pass this information around so that people should be on alert mostly those driving cus their major targets are those in driving. In their cars or any one they planned to kindnapp,pls let s rebroadcast this around,you might end up saving some you don t even know

Be your brother s keeper and let s save souls

hmnnn ok

ill tell em folks in gidi

True or False I must pass this message to 1000 people. That's my target and contribution to society. Pastors warn your members. If anybody throws a danm flyer into my car it's sure gonna be Armageddon. It may not even be on the flyer they may rub a substance on the side of the seat of the passenger side and that will gas you out. It's possible because you have divided attention at that time. No be all time person dey like use car A/C.

My brothers things are happening,only God know what they had in mind to do with this woman but God saved her for suspecting fowl play ,had it been she became unconscious and they will pull her out of the car pretending to be her friend or colleague people will simply looks the other way,pls all should share this to awake people to this new method of evil

Almost stabbed one with my pen today at maryland,God saved him

Thanks for sharing this, mods do justice!

eduwando:
Almost stabbed one with my pen today at maryland,God saved him

Thank God for your life!

Nigerian Police must be proactive and try and arrest these poeple in that area as well as those seen in the cctv fast food robbery in Agidingbi. They night be the same gang!!

Evil men roaming everywhere. May God deliver us.



Pls lets be careful----------Lagosians, Nigerians.

*I tire o- I dey siddon look*

I thank God for the life of this editor.

I call on the Nigerian Police to be MORE PROACTIVE. This incidence happened very close to their headquarters Area F. They should try to increase personnel on patrol, especially walking patrols as we see in UK, and other countries.

Also, those robbers may be the same ones that robbed from a woman's parked car at an eatery in Agidingbi, Ikeja, known as the cctv criminals.
They must arrest those criminals and the girl and parade their faces to the world!

Nigerians should learn to stop hurting other people!!!!

*FOR NOW I DEY SIDDON LOOK*

Thanks bro,I never wished any one to fall for this cus honestly such person s life can never be the same that's even if the person survived it at all

Its not funny at all

OBAJESU:
Thank God for your life!

Nigerian Police must be proactive and try and arrest these poeple in that area as well as those seen in the cctv fast food robbery in Agidingbi. They night be the same gang!!

Evil men roaming everywhere. May God deliver us.



Pls lets be careful----------Lagosians, Nigerians.

*I tire o- I dey siddon look*

Evil people everywhere,

ipobarecriminals:
:oNIGERIA! !!!!

OBAJESU:
I thank God for the life of this editor.

I call on the Nigerian Police to be MORE PROACTIVE. This incidence happened very close to their headquarters Area F. They should try to increase personnel on patrol, especially walking patrols as we see in UK, and other countries.

Also, those robbers may be the same ones that robbed from a woman's parked car at an eatery in Agidingbi, Ikeja, known as the cctv criminals.
They must arrest those criminals and the girl and parade their faces to the world!

Nigerians should learn to stop hurting other people!!!!

*FOR NOW I DEY SIDDON LOOK*

I feel you bro