LAGOS-IBADAN EXPRESSWAY KIDNAPPING: Fulani Herdsmen Shot Driver In The Head, I Escaped While They Slept —Youth Corps Member

They shot the driver in the head, he died immediately

Yetunde (surname withheld) is a youth Corps member serving in a secondary school in Ejigbo, Osun State, but has her family in Lagos State, so it was not out of place to desire to visit home for one thing or the other from time to time.

So she did on Friday, January 7, when she left Ejigbo to visit her parents. The first phase of the journey ended in Ibadan, and she boarded an ash-colour Toyota Sienna vehicle with registration number MUS 493 HH from Iwo Road, Ibadan to Lagos.


However, the journey which started smoothly was stalled abruptly by a gang of Fulani kidnappers which jumped on the road at Onigaari axis along Lagos-Ibadan expressway and started shooting.

After killing the driver,  Oluwatosin Aruwajoye, the kidnappers shot one of the passengers, Ibrahim Tiamiyu, in the thigh and took captive of five others, including the shot man’s wife, Sekinat.

But interesting and amazing is the story of one of the captives, the 26-year-old corper, who, after walking in the forest for several hours with the armed men, providentially escaped early the following morning while the captors were sleeping.

Yetunde’s story

Saturday Tribune had an interaction with her and her story from the moment of kidnap went thus:

“When we were taken from the car, the kidnappers directed us into the bush. After walking a distance, they asked us to sit for hours because the gang leader had not come then. They were initially four with us, but became five when their leader joined us. They had three guns.

They were Fulanis speaking in their language to themselves but in heavily accented Yoruba to us. Four of them used nose masks, only the leader did not use, so we couldn’t see their faces and we even dared not look at them.
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“When he came to where we were, we were on the move again. It was in the evening. We got to some places and rested. The food one of us had in our bag was eaten by the kidnappers but they gave us water from the bag when we asked for it. We would sleep a little bit; after a short period of time, they would wake us up and we would be on the move again.

“It was like they have places they usually sleep on dry leaves. It seems they made it that way so that if any captive tries to leave, they would wake up from the sound of the dry leaves.

So she did on Friday, January 7, when she left Ejigbo to visit her parents. The first phase of the journey ended in Ibadan, and she boarded an ash-colour Toyota Sienna vehicle with registration number MUS 493 HH from Iwo Road, Ibadan to Lagos.

However, the journey which started smoothly was stalled abruptly by a gang of Fulani kidnappers which jumped on the road at Onigaari axis along Lagos-Ibadan expressway and started shooting.

After killing the driver,  Oluwatosin Aruwajoye, the kidnappers shot one of the passengers, Ibrahim Tiamiyu, in the thigh and took captive of five others, including the shot man’s wife, Sekinat.

But interesting and amazing is the story of one of the captives, the 26-year-old corper, who, after walking in the forest for several hours with the armed men, providentially escaped early the following morning while the captors were sleeping!

Saturday Tribune had an interaction with her and her story from the moment of kidnap went thus:

“When we were taken from the car, the kidnappers directed us into the bush. After walking a distance, they asked us to sit for hours because the gang leader had not come then. They were initially four with us, but became five when their leader joined us. They had three guns.



They were Fulanis speaking in their language to themselves but in heavily accented Yoruba to us. Four of them used nose masks, only the leader did not use, so we couldn’t see their faces and we even dared not look at them.

“When he came to where we were, we were on the move again. It was in the evening. We got to some places and rested. The food one of us had in our bag was eaten by the kidnappers but they gave us water from the bag when we asked for it. We would sleep a little bit; after a short period of time, they would wake us up and we would be on the move again.

“It was like they have places they usually sleep on dry leaves. It seems they made it that way so that if any captive tries to leave, they would wake up from the sound of the dry leaves.


“We walked throughout the night. They kept threatening us that they would kill us. After we all slept again, including the kidnappers, a call to Muslim prayers woke me up. I know the Northerners getting up to pray so I thought they would get up. They had tied our hands tightly before then. Even till now, my nerves are yet to be active. I don’t feel with my fingers and can’t hold things. My second finger is so stiff that I can’t use it for anything. They are heavy.

“The lady whose husband was shot was one of the captives. She was beside me. She was very weak and I felt her pains. One of us who was going to Redemption Camp before the kidnap was also very weak. They almost broke her hand. It got to a point she was so frustrated that she asked them to kill her. They didn’t, instead, they used the boots they were wearing to injure her on the hands they tied. It seemed the hands were dislocated. Throughout the night, she used her scarf to cover her hands because the cold got so much into them and it was like they were dead. There was also an elderly man who was fat.

“I woke the camp lady and the one whose husband was shot but they were not strong enough to get up. They couldn’t feel their hands anymore because blood could not circulate. They were tightened so hard. Even when I wanted to urinate, it was the Fulanis who helped me to pull down my trousers as I couldn’t use my hands.

“The lady and I were whispering when I woke her up. They had already untied our hands but I believe they knew what they were doing. They tied them for about an hour and poured water on them to render them dead. Blood was no longer flowing in them and we couldn’t feel with them. Even we couldn’t feel ourselves as we touched each other. The nerve cells were dead already.

“I told her to try and hold a palm tree in front of her but she couldn’t feel with her hands so she couldn’t grasp the tree. She fell down and I couldn’t wait for her anymore. If I tried to pull her, the Fulanis might wake up. That was how I started my journey.

“I had noticed that when they were taking us through the forest, they were moving to the right side, so I was making my own moves towards the left side for about an hour. Fortunately, I got to a place with tree stumps shaded with leaves. I slept there for about an hour to regain some strength.

“By the time I woke up, it was bright morning. I started walking. I was pricked by thorns on my bare feet and hands but I was not feeling them because my limbs were dead. I was using my head to create space to move. I didn’t care for the pains because I needed to survive. I walked for about five hours because it was almost 12 noon, as I learnt later, that I got to a point I could see sun shining. That made me to believe that I was getting near where I would see people.

Yetunde (surname withheld) is a youth Corps member serving in a secondary school in Ejigbo, Osun State, but has her family in Lagos State, so it was not out of place to desire to visit home for one thing or the other from time to time.

So she did on Friday, January 7, when she left Ejigbo to visit her parents. The first phase of the journey ended in Ibadan, and she boarded an ash-colour Toyota Sienna vehicle with registration number MUS 493 HH from Iwo Road, Ibadan to Lagos.

However, the journey which started smoothly was stalled abruptly by a gang of Fulani kidnappers which jumped on the road at Onigaari axis along Lagos-Ibadan expressway and started shooting.

After killing the driver,  Oluwatosin Aruwajoye, the kidnappers shot one of the passengers, Ibrahim Tiamiyu, in the thigh and took captive of five others, including the shot man’s wife, Sekinat.

But interesting and amazing is the story of one of the captives, the 26-year-old corper, who, after walking in the forest for several hours with the armed men, providentially escaped early the following morning while the captors were sleeping!

 Saturday Tribune had an interaction with her and her story from the moment of kidnap went thus:

“When we were taken from the car, the kidnappers directed us into the bush. After walking a distance, they asked us to sit for hours because the gang leader had not come then. They were initially four with us, but became five when their leader joined us. They had three guns.



They were Fulanis speaking in their language to themselves but in heavily accented Yoruba to us. Four of them used nose masks, only the leader did not use, so we couldn’t see their faces and we even dared not look at them.

“When he came to where we were, we were on the move again. It was in the evening. We got to some places and rested. The food one of us had in our bag was eaten by the kidnappers but they gave us water from the bag when we asked for it. We would sleep a little bit; after a short period of time, they would wake us up and we would be on the move again.

“It was like they have places they usually sleep on dry leaves. It seems they made it that way so that if any captive tries to leave, they would wake up from the sound of the dry leaves.


“We walked throughout the night. They kept threatening us that they would kill us. After we all slept again, including the kidnappers, a call to Muslim prayers woke me up. I know the Northerners getting up to pray so I thought they would get up. They had tied our hands tightly before then. Even till now, my nerves are yet to be active. I don’t feel with my fingers and can’t hold things. My second finger is so stiff that I can’t use it for anything. They are heavy.

“The lady whose husband was shot was one of the captives. She was beside me. She was very weak and I felt her pains. One of us who was going to Redemption Camp before the kidnap was also very weak. They almost broke her hand. It got to a point she was so frustrated that she asked them to kill her. They didn’t, instead, they used the boots they were wearing to injure her on the hands they tied. It seemed the hands were dislocated. Throughout the night, she used her scarf to cover her hands because the cold got so much into them and it was like they were dead. There was also an elderly man who was fat.

“I woke the camp lady and the one whose husband was shot but they were not strong enough to get up. They couldn’t feel their hands anymore because blood could not circulate. They were tightened so hard. Even when I wanted to urinate, it was the Fulanis who helped me to pull down my trousers as I couldn’t use my hands.

“The lady and I were whispering when I woke her up. They had already untied our hands but I believe they knew what they were doing. They tied them for about an hour and poured water on them to render them dead. Blood was no longer flowing in them and we couldn’t feel with them. Even we couldn’t feel ourselves as we touched each other. The nerve cells were dead already.

“I told her to try and hold a palm tree in front of her but she couldn’t feel with her hands so she couldn’t grasp the tree. She fell down and I couldn’t wait for her anymore. If I tried to pull her, the Fulanis might wake up. That was how I started my journey.

“I had noticed that when they were taking us through the forest, they were moving to the right side, so I was making my own moves towards the left side for about an hour. Fortunately, I got to a place with tree stumps shaded with leaves. I slept there for about an hour to regain some strength.

“By the time I woke up, it was bright morning. I started walking. I was pricked by thorns on my bare feet and hands but I was not feeling them because my limbs were dead. I was using my head to create space to move. I didn’t care for the pains because I needed to survive. I walked for about five hours because it was almost 12 noon, as I learnt later, that I got to a point I could see sun shining. That made me to believe that I was getting near where I would see people.


“By the time I walked for another one hour again, I heard a machine being used to cut trees. I walked towards the sound, with the belief that people were doing it. By the time I got close to them, the machine had been stopped and they were about going when I shouted. They were saying: “who is there? Are you not an evil spirit in the forest?” I told them I wasn’t and explained my predicament to them.

“One of them made moves to assist me by cutting the trees and grasses in front of him till he got to where I was. That was when he knew I was a living being. He was like ‘lady, you really tried if you could make it out of this forest alive.’

“The first thing I requested for was a pair of slippers because my legs were aching and the thorns were pricking me on my hands, legs, back. We walked for about an hour before we got to their village in Ogunmakin.

I had requested for water because I was so thirsty and dehydrated but they said they couldn’t give me because it was dangerous to do so for someone with my experience. They said it could lead to death.

I saw a river and wanted to fall in and drink water but they prevented me.

“When we got there, they started removing the thorns with blade. That was when I started feeling pains. Even till now, my hands are still not functioning well. They boiled water for me and a lady bathed me because I couldn’t do it myself. I couldn’t feel any touch. The tree cutter also gave me his shirt and trousers to change from my torn clothes. His trousers were bigger for me but I didn’t have a choice.

They also fed me with cocoyam and red oil, which they said was traditionally therapeutic and would bring me relief, but I couldn’t eat. I was just drinking water. They really took care of me.

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This nonsense call for a big protest

Ipob will write a whole book because of propaganda. We already know who the kidnappers are, we know the land of the rising crime.

Dududuru

asanausana91:
Ipob will write a whole book because of propaganda. We already know who the kidnappers are, we know the land of the rising crime.

This is a sick joke right?

asanausana91:
Ipob will write a whole book because of propaganda. We already know who the kidnappers are, we know the land of the rising crime.

Fulani don come. His aim is to cause disunity among the southerners so that there won't be any uprising against them one day. People should disregard this fellow because we are already wiser than them

All zombies wont die well

Anyone who mentions tinubu for president will do the same

Emilys:
This nonsense call for a big protest

ARE YORUBAS COMPLAINING

asanausana91:
Ipob will write a whole book because of propaganda. We already know who the kidnappers are, we know the land of the rising crime.

DON’T MIND THEM JARE

SEUNMSG
HEADSMASHER
HELINUES
GBAGURA

Where are the cows?

tungamaje:


Fulani don come. His aim is to cause disunity among the southerners so that there won't be any uprising against them one day. People should disregard this fellow because we are already wiser than them

when an Igbo man want to cheat a yoruba man he will start talking about southern unity but when yoruba contest an election they will not vote for him.
They didn't vote for Abiola
They didn't vote for Aso
They didn't vote for olufalaye
They didn't vote for Osinbajo
Now they are telling Tinubu not to contest
They said they will vote for Atiku instead of Tinubu.
What kind of southern unity is that?

BeardedmeatR:
This is a sick joke right?

everybody knows that 85% of crime in lagos is done by ipob.

The driver didn't get the memo.

He should have conversed with them in hausa language.

RIP.

asanausana91:
when an Igbo man want to cheat a yoruba man he will start talking about southern unity but when yoruba contest an election they will not vote for him.
They didn't vote for Abiola
They didn't vote for Aso
They didn't vote for olufalaye
They didn't vote for Osinbajo
Now they are telling Tinubu not to contest
They said they will vote for Atiku instead of Tinubu.
What kind of southern unity is that?

I am talking about terrorists who have invaded our lands and you are talking about Tinubu? I am not any politician's fan. I would only be a fan of any southern politician who would tackle the terrorits' invasion of our lands with the urgency it demands. And I haven't seen any

tungamaje:


I am talking about terrorists who have invaded our lands and you are talking about Tinubu? I am not any politician's fan. I would only be a fan of any southern politician who would tackle the terrorits' invasion of our lands with the urgency it demands. And I haven't seen any

do you forget the terrorist that gave other to burn Lagos?

How dare you say they are fulanis.
Where are the cows?...... tinubu
Fulanis do not carry guns but sticks .... buhari

asanausana91:
do you forget the terrorist that gave other to burn Lagos?

My man don't distract us. We are discussing about terrorists who kidnapped our sisters on their way and brutalized them in our own land. Who knows whether they used those their uncircumcized tools to assault them. How I wish Fayose was still there, he was the only brave southern governor. He would have led his people into the forests to dislodge those fools

Thank God survived it,

The brown teeth tout won't talk to the fulanis to stop the kidnapping but for his own selfish greedy ambition to become president.

It is well.

God no go shame the innocent.

But things go soon fall-apart come 2023.

tungamaje:


My man don't distract us. We are discussing about terrorists who kidnapped our sisters on their way and brutalized them in our own land. Who knows whether they used those their uncircumcized tools to assault them. How I wish Fayose was still there, he was the only brave southern governor. He would have led his people into the forests to dislodge those fools

yes Evans is a Fulani man.

Ordinary misunderstanding the people of the setting sun is complaining.

No big deal.
By the way, where are their guns?

asanausana91:
everybody knows that 85% of crime in lagos is done by ipob.

Mpama.

asanausana91:
everybody knows that 85% of crime in lagos is done by ipob.

i suggest you go smash your head on zumer rock and safe yourself your breath

BeardedmeatR:
Mpama.

terrorist

asanausana91:
terrorist

I'm not a mooslim

BeardedmeatR:
I'm not a mooslim

even KANU is not a Muslim, Evan is not a Muslim.

Haaaaaaaa. Fulani killings? Kai
See wetin these boys do their girlfriend too o


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3A33CBAGxw

asanausana91:
even KANU is not a Muslim, Evan is not a Muslim.

You are very very correct.