Woman Narrates Ordeal in Kidnappers Den

A 48-year-old mother of three, Mrs Chioma Anyanwu, who was kidnapped on June 21, 2021, and released four days later by her abductors has narrated her ordeal while in the custody of the abductors.

Anyawu was dropped along the Lokoja road in Kogi State on her way to Abuja by five armed kidnappers.

Describing her ordeal “as horrific and monstrous”, she told family friends that her husband paid the ransom money, an amount she declined to disclose.

According to her, the kidnappers had stopped their station wagon vehicle, which was on transit, and selected four passengers (two men and two women).

“We were immediately blindfolded and marched into the bush and we were asked to hold each other’s hands.

“We trekked for over thirty minutes before we were asked to sit down while they scrolled through our phones.

“We barely had anything to eat all through the four days coupled with their incessant threats as they desperately demanded for ransom,” she recollected.

Her husband, Mr. Uche Anyawu, who thanked God for the release of his wife, said the four days experience was not only traumatic, but hellish, adding that he was seriously warned not to involve the security agency.