Maxymilliano:


Lol .. I actually have someone in captivity since 27th of last month. Information is sketchy but demand is 10m ... Route is Abuja - Jos

Funny enough, I'm in Ota, Ogun State atm

Frankyboy1:
I know our lazy youths has lost the culture of reading, I try to read every meaningful article possible, as a lot of live lessons can be learnt, so I will summarize.
Nigeria is no longer a safe nation, as hunger poverty, illiteracy has finished the nation.
Buhari being the president of the nation has emboldened the Fulani brothers who are the architect of most crimes,
Please and please this nation is unsafe and a lot of informants and ways of finding out your financial capacity,either real or virtual, so pls do well to delete your account details, keep pictures that depict you as being wealthy from your phones or Facebook pages,try to be as discrete as possible with your financial worth or relatives that re capable financially,

Try to be as prayerful as possible,and avoid all suspicious route except its unavoidable, our security personals have majorly compromised with this criminals and are in tanderm with them, so you are your own first safety officer,

God keep us all and happy new year

Rich4god:
I weep for some Nigerian youths. See them shouting that the write up is too long, that the OP should summarise.... This is a matter of personal security and you can't read. The lessons in this write up is so much that it could save your life one day.


Back to the story, it's obvious our security forces are aiding this kidnapping or that they don't have the capacity to curtail it. But what baffles me is that why the silence from the FG and security chiefs on this issue. If it's Shia or ipob, all of them will be roaring like lions.

mdchikezie:

PLEASE BRO CAN YOU RELATE THE AMOUNT THEY PAID

PLEASE, just want to contrast

Maxymilliano:
Worst moment

At about 2 pm, Gbenga announced that he had arrived Jos. And the kidnappers were surprised at his speed. They asked how much he was bringing, and he gave the figure. Sergeant Sniper was livid. He collected the phone and said with a deadly cold voice: “If you come here with anything less than what we asked you to bring, just consider your trip a total waste of time.”

I became scared, especially with the looks in his eyes. I begged to be given the phone to speak with my friend. I said, “Gbenga, please kindly try all that you can to make sure the ransom is complete – my situation is different, and they have eyes on me.” Gbenga said, “Don’t worry; everything is under control.”

It was then I knew my friend was trying to avoid a situation they would be asking for more money, so he had to continue feigning there was no much to offer. I told them he would get the remaining amount from a friend in Jos, who agreed to lend us some. They said that was fine.

They asked my friend to alert them as soon as he met with the other three ransom bearers in Jos. And when he did, they put the phone on speaker so that all of them could hear what was being discussed. To our hearing, they said each ransom bearer should declare what they brought and all of them took time to do so. They summed up the total and then said: “okay, get the two of you to bring the money and make sure the vehicle you are coming with can convey all of you plus four people back to Jos.”

At that point, I noticed Sergeant Sniper brought out all the bullets from his AK47, cleaned the gun, and began to insert the bullets into the cartridge one after the other. He had to offer some incantation on each ammunition, touch it with his tongue, before inserting it into the cartridge. I became worried. Would these guys let me go after collecting the money? I wasn’t sure they were convinced I was not a soldier after seeing me in a military jacket and a helmet. I was even more disturbed that they were not hiding their faces again – if they would spare me, they wouldn’t have allowed me to see their faces. So I went into prayers.

“Yellow, are you praying for us?” asked Sergeant Smile, who was sitting far behind me. They all called me Yellow. I didn’t know what to say , but I had to respond to his question. “Yes,” I said. “Prayers are good, right? I’m praying that this should end well for all of us.” He nodded, smiling as usual.

Sergeant Elder who normally advised on what to accept concerning ransom, took over all communications. He asked the ransom bearers to call him each time they arrived at a specific location, and that when they finally arrived at Jagindi village, they should stop, put on their inner light and call to notify him.

When Gbenga called to announce that they had reached Gidan Waya, it was about 5.30 PM. So they announced to us that it was time to start moving towards the point of exchange.

We had to wait for some minutes for a herdsman who was spotted far down the valley grazing his herds, to move out of sight. While waiting, we also spotted three young boys making their way home from the farms.

All cleared, we began to descend the hills, and in some minutes, we were all walking along a footpath. As we moved on in silence, Sergeant Smile walked up to me and said, smiling, “Oga Yellow, I know you are happy that you are going to see your wife.” I said, “yes, and children as well.” He walked on to join Sergeant Sniper, who was ahead leading the movement.

After some time, we veered off the footpath and began to walk through a beans farm. It was an open space, but these guys were not bothered if anyone would spot them. They knew the entire terrain, and they seemed to know where to avoid being seen.

It was getting darker when we arrived at a stream. On the other side of the stream, the five had a brief meeting, and then a call came from Gbenga that they had arrived at Jagindi village. Sergeant Sniper took over the phone and described how they should move from there to the point of collecting the ransom. A vivid description was given.

Sergeants Sniper, Small, and Smile left us to go and collect the ransom. They had two AK47 with them. Sergeants Elder and ICT stayed back with us.

After about 10 minutes, Sergeant Elder said we should start moving towards the same direction the trio took. We began to move, but this time we could barely see our paths, we kept on bumping into shrubs, but our escorts were okay.

We walked for about 20 minutes; then, Sergeant Elder asked us to stop and wait for further communication from those that went to collect the ransom. As we waited, they asked us to look up at the sky. The effect blinds you when you look down. It was a strategy to constrain our sights should we attempt anything unexpected.

Walk to freedom

It was the longest wait for me. It started drizzling, but who cared? It was getting to about 40 minutes, no call, and no sign of movement. From a distance, we could see floodlights of cars moving. But we were still far away from the highway. I still doubted if they would honour their words to release us after collecting the money. Then I heard Sergeant Elder speak on his phone, and he said, “okay.” He turned to us and said, “Time to move.”

We started hobbling and stumbling after them. It was dark. We walked for about 10 minutes then we found ourselves on an earth route. There, we sighted three human silhouettes coming towards us. Those were Sergeants Sniper, Small, and Smile. My heart began to pound fast. Is it going to be or not?

Haruna few hours after he was released by abductors

As we walked towards them, Sergeant ICT grabbed my hands gently and said, “Abdulkareem, when you guys get home, please pray for us so that we could leave this kind of job.” I slowed down, looked at him and said “May God grant you the grace to use this money wisely so that you can stop this business and be a better citizen.” He said, “Amen, thank you.” And I said, in my heart. “Bastard!”

I doubled up to join the others ahead, and then Sergeant Sniper called out to me “Yellow, here is your phone, put on the torch and follow this footpath straight ahead it will take you to the highway, there you will meet your people.” We muttered words of appreciation, and I took the phone from him, but the battery was then at 10 percent, so the torch app won’t work. I looked at Sergeant Small, he had a bag he collected from one of my abducted colleagues hanging heavily on his shoulder. He got the ransom!

Papa said his phone still had some power, so he offered his torch, and we continued to stumble through the rough path. It took us about 10 minutes of walk, at a point, we thought we had missed the road. But he said “straight,” so we walked on.

My friend later told me they were asked to park by the road facing the direction of Jos. After some minutes, two persons emerged from the bush, one with a gun and hurriedly collected the money. They instructed them to open the bonnet of the car and then dashed back into the forest. It was Sergeants Small and Smile that received the money, while Sniper hid in the bush waiting to shoot should anything go wrong.

We got to the main road, and I sighted a car parked with its bonnet opened. There was no sign of persons inside. So I called out, “Gbenga”, and my friend responded, I’m here, enter quickly. Four of us crammed into the back seat of the Volkswagen Vectra, and off we zoomed to freedom.

On the way, we exchanged words of thanks and congratulations. I asked if my friend called my main lines. He said, “yes, it was deposited at the police station in Jagindi.”

The police handed over to me my bag and its inventoried contents, after which I was bid good luck. I was not debriefed; I was not asked to write a statement.

As we drove that night to Jos, the police warned us to be extra careful that the roads had been plagued by similar attacks in the past days. In my mind, I said, “don’t worry, it has been bought.”

I also pondered over the event of the past three days. How easy it has become to be kidnapped, how easy it was for unscrupulous youth to make money, and how easy it is to die here, and I sighed. “That is the hazard of being in Nigeria.”

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/370544-kidnapped-and-released-nigerian-journalist-narrates-shocking-experience.html

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madridsta007:



Sure. I would almost agree with you.
Unfortunately, the stats says otherwise. Please tell me why, whenever a Fulani herdsmen terrorist is captured by the Police, a phone call is made from Abuja and they are mysteriously released?

Or why soldiers invade communities who arm themselves to protect themselves from these terrorists are always disarmed by the military and, shortly after that, an attack follows?

You see eh, the worst thing a man can do to himself is constantly deceive himself because his feelings don’t like the evidence he sees.

madridsta007:


Thank you. If you check the fellow’s history, he is probably a Buharist or an ex-Buharist. Normally, I ignore those people. But he was decent in his language so I was obliged to reply.

Self-deception is a terrible disease.

If those kidnappers spoke Ijaw language, do you think any “phone call” will come from Abuja and get them released? Does he think they will not be smoked out easily and since?

If those kidnappers were kidnapping cows, wouldn’t they be facing an anti-kidnapping riot squad right now?

The worst thing a man can do to himself is to continually deceive himself. It is terrible thing.

nams77:

You can say that again. I am going to delete some pictures from my phone

When Sergent IT send WhatsApp message to your wife saying, honey snap the car and the house for me , your beating go come double for misleading

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:

You see these things you mentioned? They happened during GEJ's time and even before then. Muhammad yusuf was arrested several times, brought top Abuja and released. All those things aren't new. Was it not during GEJ's time that people were killed in tens in southern kaduna, soldiers will be a stone throw away, they will only come around after the attack and be asking stupid questions. The day I was robbed by fulanis at the area where this journalist was kidnapped, there were soldiers, just a few kilometers away. The robbers shot sporadically, soldiers came about 5 minutes after the robbery. I am not deceiving myself, these problems have always been there and will get worse over time while we continue screaming Buhari, Good luck etc .

Ayotemide:
I read it and I know it is now time to leave this country.

I have believed in it long enough, my belief for something better seems like a fantasy now.

Thank you Nigeria.

Shibaraba:
Try separate your epistle to chapters and verses so we can add it to the Bible .O por gaan

abdulizom:
It's confirmed that greater number of persons on Nairaland are either kids or too dull to be logical.
A piece so mind capturing like this, that I'd to read carefully not to skip any word is too long for the picture language and this selfing generation.
Dull senses like these can turnout kidnapper as well.
Sorry brother, you're welcome, we appreciate hardworking individuals like you in our society.
Thank you sir

BeerParIour:



The ones arrested by security men are being released in the name of amnesty and you want the security men to be chasing them again, which kind game be that?


Here is Katsina governor taking picture with a Fulani Kidnapper a.k.a Bandits while Zamfara State granted amnesty to hundreds and still gave them RUGA

madridsta007:


Mohammed Yusuf was the person that started Boko Haram. Boko Haram are actually different from the discussion in question here, and that is herdsmen.

He was killed in an operation that happened on the 20th of July, 2009.

President Musa Ya Ardua was the C in C that ordered the operation.

If you want to lie, at least make sure it isn’t too obvious. If those kidnappers killing and abducting Nigerians were going for cows, this would have been sorted out a long time ago. No one have said that it hasnt always been. Don’t deflect the question. Did you read what you responded to at all? You’ll look silly when you may not be.

Continue deceiving yourself. It’s something you lots are sworn to do anyway.