A woman, Emmanuella Anyanwu, who escaped from the hoodlums who reportedly killed late Olajide Sowore on Saturday, has said the gunmen demanded a ransom of N10m shortly before she escaped from the camp where she was kept with four others.

Anyanwu, who said she was on her way from Lagos to Imo to bury her husband, stated that she offered the kidnappers N500,000, but was called a fool.

She recounted her ordeal at the police headquarters in Benin on Monday.

She said, “On Friday, we were coming from Lagos to the eastern part of the country and our vehicle broke down around Okada on the outskirts of Benin.

“We passed the night in the vehicle. Around 6.30am to 7am Saturday, some men came out from the bush, shooting at us; we surrendered. We were two ladies and three men.

“They took our belongings, including our phones and marched us into the bush. It took almost two hours to get to their camp. They blindfolded us and questioned us one after the other.

“They asked me where I was coming from and where I was going. I told them that I was coming from Lagos and going to Imo State for my husband’s burial. They asked how many kids I had and I told them two. I also told them I sold groundnut in Lagos. They asked if I was the one providing the money to bury my husband and I told them his brother would do that.

kidnappers and they abducted me because of ransom. They said if I didn’t have money, they would take my life. I asked them how much they wanted, but one of them was furious I was asking them questions. I told them I needed to know what they wanted as ransom. They asked if I had N10m and I told them there was no way I could get that kind of money. I told them I would give them N500,000 from the money gathered from my village. One of them said I was a fool and they told me to sit down.

“Then it started raining heavily and they went away and brought another man. They took something from that man and their attention was on it. So, I removed my blindfold and crept away.

“I believe they are Fulani because on that Saturday afternoon, they released their cows and came to where we were being held.

“I saw a mast far away and I started trekking towards it. After one hour or more, I got to a road and saw an elderly man on a motorcycle. I asked him to take me to a police station, which he did.”

Asked if Sowore’s brother was killed by the gang, she said the hoodlums shot at different cars, adding that she could not tell if anyone died.

“They were harsh and warned us not to look at their faces. They also instructed us not to talk to each other. They beat the men, but spared the women. I sustained the wounds on my body when I was trying to find my way out of the bush,” she added.
https://punchng.com/how-i-escaped-from-gunmen-who-killed-sowores-brother-widow/?amp

Nigeria is gone the dogs

It will never be well with BUhari

I no read am but you try

Jungleria... Is a country where there is govt but not functioning.. Citizens pray to God for amenities that the govt ought to provide. Jungleria is dominated by animals in human skin. Major ruler Cow, major corrupt leaders snakes and monkeys.. I hail ooo

Miraculous Escape

No where is safe.

People should avoid night and late hour journey, naija is gone . We must do everything possible to limit our exposure to Fulanis... they don't have the same brain like us

May God punish those beating the drum of support for this people. Is this the kind of business governor EL Rufai happily says BANDITS are doing. If not for wickedness, how can you kidnap a widow going home to bury her beloved husband, you compounded her woes and in her pains she even offered you a whooping sum of 500, 000 in this critical period and even have the audacity to reject it and demanded for 10M.

CONGRATULATIONS MADAM,
RIP TO YOUR BELOVED HUSBAND.
MAY GOD HEAL OUR LAND.

I'm here imagining what on mother earth could have taken away their attention for the woman to have escaped unnoticed...

so pathetic

Sai Baba! It's good that they're folding the nation with their illiteracy and nepotism.

The headline is misleading. This woman never said the gun men who abducted her actually killed Sowore's brother.

She was asked and her response was based on assumption and there's also another version that stated she was a nun and live in a convent in Ghana

I don't understand the escape part. Was she distracting them with a lap dance?

Meanwhile it's wonderful how all the criminals in Nigeria went on sabbatical and left all the crimes for Fulani herdsmen to commit.

LuQuLuQu:
I'm here imagining what on mother earth could have taken away their attention for the woman to have escaped unnoticed...

You are not alone on that imagining

I will make NIGERIA UNGOVERNABLE NO MORE AGAIN.

THAT'S TO SAY

THE MILITARY WILL FOLLOW ME TO CARRY ON RIFA-RUGA ISLAMISATION FULANISATION AND ANARCHY IN NIGERIA.

Those of you imagining keep imagining oh until it happens to you

Security consciousness is key at this critical period in Nigeria.

In buhari's voice I'll protect Nigerians from terrorists

Okoroawusa:
I don't understand the escape part. Was she distracting them with a lap dance?

Meanwhile it's wonderful how all the criminals in Nigeria went on sabbatical and left all the crimes for Fulani herdsmen to commit.

Fulani terrorist

Bye bye Nigeria
This is crazyyy man
Like even the poor wey wan go bury dead
Buhari brothers

Nigeria is gone. All thanks to Mr Lifeless.

Maxymilliano:
The headline is misleading. This woman never said the gun men who abducted her actually killed Sowore's brother.

She was asked and her response was based on assumption and there's also another version that stated she was a nun and live in a convent in Ghana

This part was added to juice it up “ “I believe they are Fulani because on that Saturday afternoon, they released their cows and came to where we were being held”.

Okoroawusa:
I don't understand the escape part. Was she distracting them with a lap dance?

Meanwhile it's wonderful how all the criminals in Nigeria went on sabbatical and left all the crimes for Fulani herdsmen to commit.

I surprise, it seems Ipob & Herdsmen are the only Criminals in Nigeria today. . I wonder whatever happened to those one thousand prisoners released from Edo State Prison Benin City by Endsars protesters?

velocity25:
Nigeria is gone. All thanks to Mr Lifeless.

I know, the indigenes of Okada wonderland won’t go into that forest & bring out those criminals disturbing their bushes, even if it means deforestation & setting as much of it on fire, it is President Buhari in Abuja they are waiting for?

Aren’t you amongst the endsars people shouting I prefer Bandits to Police? Your wish has come true? Go & break more prisons & release more convicted Felons, so you can wail & blame President Buhari about insecurity you & your Endsars saboteurs aided in creating, thinking they are showing President Buhari, The chicken has finally come home to roost.

Buckeyemedia1:
I know, the indigenes of Okada wonderland won’t go into that forest & bring out those criminals disturbing their bushes, even if it means deforestation & setting as much of it on fire, it is President Buhari in Abuja they are waiting for?

Aren’t you amongst the endsars people shouting I prefer Bandits to Police? Your wish has come true? Go & break more prisons & release more convicted Felons, so you can wail & blame President Buhari about insecurity you & your Endsars saboteurs aided in creating, thinking they are showing President Buhari, The chicken has finally come home to roost.

what is this one saying? what Endsars got to do with this? must you display your foolishness? is Okada axis only where they are kidnapping and destroying lives?was there Endsars protest in Zamfara,katsina, kaduna and other places in the north yet Bandits are having field day over there.
Your lord buhari has failed is as simple as that.

Insecurity at it's highest and peak.
Apc is a disaster,a failure,an almost irredeemable error�

When that slug in Aso Rock, opened the northern borders and gave visa-free entry to foreigners...I knew this sort of things would be the end result.

Different story vs different headline