Owerri-based writer and teacher, Chibuihe Light Obi has finally regained freedom after a harrowing three days of being held hostage by unknown captors.

It was a weekend of bated breaths and twiddling thumbs as friends of the poet woke on Saturday to news that Chibuihe Light Obi who was supposed to turn up for a literary event in the city of Nsukka was nowhere to be found.

A couple of his friends would then receive messages via his Facebook messenger which raised suspicions that he had been kidnapped in connection with an essay which he had written recently and condemned homophobia.

Chibuihe Light Obi

Chubuihe Light would begin his journey to freedom on the heels of a message relayed to friends and followers on his social media page. “Isiala mbano hedqater pik him dia,” the cryptic message said on the night of Sunday, June 4,/2017.



www.metronaija.com correspondent gathered from a friend of Chibuihe that even though they had received the message an hour before his abductors shared the above message, when Paulcy Cyprian Iwuala, the friend who had been assigned to drive to the location got to the location, Chibuihe’s was nowhere to be found.

According to our source,

“Paulcy found a corper’s lodge, but Chibuihe was not there. We asked him to search in the bush, no show. He went and hung around the village. And then a call came to him to come pick up Chibuihe by 6:30am (on Monday)”

“He drove off again to the police station where some corpers had taken Chibuihe to. Paulcy found him there and drove him back to Owerri.”

Our source insists that friends and family of Chibuihe Light Obi did not enter into any negotiations with his abductors, in the three days that they held him captive.

He returned with seemingly minor injuries, and when asked if hurt, we learnt Chibuihe agreed that he was hurt, but the hurt was minor. In the words of our source:
“When I asked him if he needs to go to the hospital, he said yes. But not yet“

The obviously traumatized Chibuihe however said that his abductors covered his face during his three-day ordeal, and as such he has no idea of his abductors. He has also said that his kidnappers have all the money in his account via his atm cards.

As to the reason behind his kidnap, speculations may not be far from true as the writer has told close friends and family that his abductors asked him: “so you are that lgbt rights boy.”

While we wish Chibuihe a quick recovery from this traumatic experience, we hope people can eventually learn to tolerate other people’s views and accommodate differences as a necessary way to attain peaceful co-existence.

http://www.metronaija.com/2017/06/chibuihe-obi-gay-activist-finally.html

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Hope he don learn

Hmmmmm

peckhamboi:
Biafra and homosexuality are like 5 and 6.

Unlike Yorubas whose men are real men.

Bisi, Bobrosky,Derenle and Badmus are from which tribe ?

peckhamboi:
Biafra and homosexuality are like 5 and 6.

Unlike Yorubas whose men are real men.

SMH

peckhamboi:
Biafra and homosexuality are like 5 and 6.

Unlike Yorubas whose men are real men.

Go and tell that to your Buhari.

ESDKING:

Bisi, Bobrosky,Derenle and Badmus are from which tribe ?

"She" is a dumbskull not to know that sexuality has no color, creed or space. Even your blood brother or sister could be one without you knowing. That's the real secret in Nigeria or elsewhere.