A 29-year old lady identified as Lucy Jeremiah has conquered and subsequently regained her freedom from a nine-man kidnap gang that abducted her in a village located within Plateau state.
She had been kidnapped while traveling from Abuja to Plateau state.
Lucy who spoke at the Plateau State Police Command Headquarters where she was recuperating, narrated her experience.
She said, “What happened was that we were coming back from Abuja to Jos in a vehicle last Thursday. On getting to the Government Science School, Kuru, in the Jos South LGA of Plateau State around 6pm, though I was sleeping in the vehicle, I woke up when the vehicle suddenly stopped.
“When I woke up, I saw a man wielding a gun. He opened the door and said we should give him our phones. He collected all our phones and money. He thereafter selected four of us in the vehicle and marched us into the bush.
“The kidnappers, numbering nine, asked us to call our parents on phone and demanded N5m each. After we made the calls, they took us farther into the bush and out of the four persons, I was the only female among them.”
She lamented that others kidnapped were afraid to escape.
“They said they could not do anything because they were not with any weapon to fight the kidnappers, who were with a gun, a knife and other weapons. By this time, some of the kidnappers, who were initially nine, had left, leaving four of them with us. As we marched deeper into the bush, two of the four kidnappers were trailing behind, while two others with the gun and knife were leading us in front.
“At this time, I told my co-traveller victims that we should do something and that I will not follow the kidnappers any farther into the bush to wherever they were taking us to and that God would be in control. I also told them what to do as I suggested to them that I would be the first person to grab the kidnapper carrying the gun while they should come to my assistance if anything happened and that was what I did. So, when I grabbed the kidnapper with the gun, the other kidnapper holding a knife rushed forward and wanted to stab me in the stomach. But as I turned, he missed his target,” she said.
The Police authorities said already efforts were on to rescue other victims.
