I would like to say that the level of insecurity in the country is alarming and we should be looking at how our leaders can minimise the activities of the kidnappers.
My brother was a good man. I am not saying this because he is my brother; so many others have also said so through various media.
It is a pity that a taxpayer will go to the police station to report a kidnapping case and the police will confirm that the kidnappers are always at a particular location, yet make no effort to arrest the kidnappers. In this case, the police said the kidnappers were always at Powerline by the Auchi Byepass from 12am to 2 pm. Do you know what that means? I won’t say anything but the meaning is very loud and clear.
Only days ago, another incident happened at that same spot where my brother was kidnapped and met his death. It is a pity that the country is in this situation. I am sure that the leaders know the solution but they are pretending not to because of their political interest.
I was hoping to have my brother back after paying the ransom demanded by the kidnappers, but unfortunately, I lost him. Even after his death, we kept spending money on things like autopsy and fuel for the vehicle of the police that accompanied me to comb the forest (to recover my brother’s corpse).
I saw the abductors, they were Fulani. When you see a Fulani, you will know him by the features of his face. The Fulani have a distinct nose shape.
They are all over the forest right now. If as a civilian I was able to comb the forest with the help of other people under two hours and we were able to arrest five Fulani, it means that if Nigerians are serious, we can drive them away from the forest.
When those kidnapped alongside my brother were released, they said they asked the kidnappers where my brother was. But the kidnappers told them that my brother had been killed and that his body could never be found.
When they told me that, I took it as a challenge. I was the more determined to look for his corpse. I felt that if they had not cooked and eaten his body, then I should be able to find it. I had to join forces with the anti-kidnapping unit of the police, the local hunters and the vigilantes.
I also spoke to the chairman of my local government, Comrade John Akhigbe, who contacted two other local government chairmen in the area. The driver who was kidnapped along with my brother and others took us to the spot where they were kidnapped and we went into the forest through the place and we found his decomposing body.
Every person should take his security into his own hands. The governments of the various states where Fulani herdsmen are terrorising people should make a pronouncement that the Fulani should go back home without any quarrel intended. Let us sit down and have a meeting to see if we can live together. But for them to be in the forest with guns and be terrorising people; this should never be allowed.
They were Fulani. I was the one that took the ransom to the kidnappers and I saw them. They were not even masked. They were Fulani.
There are two police stations near the place where my brother was kidnapped. If you go through Auchi Bypass after Ahor Police Station, there is another one opposite the forest beside the NNPC mega station.
Two police trucks were packed there, while I was handing over the ransom to the kidnappers. They instructed me to pack my car in front of the NNPC station just by a police station. I was scared that policemen might come out and disrupt the arrangement.
I didn’t want the abductors to think I alerted the police. After paying the ransom and my brother was not handed over to me, I started shouting and calling the police for help but they ran away. I thought it was a checkpoint but I found out that it was a police station. Imagine the police running away after hearing a call for help.
Culled From Punch Newspaper
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