Surajudeen Olasinde, a public servant, described how his wife, Mistura, and two daughters, Hauwa and Fatima, were kidnapped in the Galadima District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Mr Olasinde, a staff member of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA), claimed the incident happened on Friday, September 8, when his wife and children were travelling home from Garki to Starwood Estate, where they live.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTheir abduction happened around 7 p.m. last Friday on their way from Garki. Immediately they reached Kabusa Garden Estate at the spot where the road was terribly bad, the kidnappers came out from the nearby bush and attacked them.<\/p>\n
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They started shooting to scare people away before they marched them into the bush,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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He said residents of the area quickly called the Divisional Police Station at Galadimawa immediately the news got to them and the DPO, Jerry Cole, led a team of his officers to comb the bushes in collaboration with men of the vigilante.<\/p>\n
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He said the search effort was, however, unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
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Mr Olasinde, an indigene of Offa in Kwara State, said he was away in the state when the incident happened.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was not in Abuja when it happened because I have been transferred to Kwara State.<\/p>\n
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But I was told that the police and the vigilantes searched the bush all through 3 a.m. on Saturday without success.<\/p>\n
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We also contacted officers of the Department of State Services (DSS). They tracked the kidnappers\u2019 movement and the search got to a forest in Kuje,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Mr Olasinde, who arrived in Abuja on Saturday, said their captors called his brother-in-law to demand a N100 million ransom.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey asked for N100 million. Later, they brought it down to N50 million, then to N10 million.<\/p>\n
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But at the end of the day, they asked us how much we had with us.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe kidnappers even told us that if they killed my wife and my two daughters, they could sell their body parts above whatever amount we claimed to have.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe resorted to begging, pleading with them not to harm or kill my family,\u201d he said sadly.<\/p>\n
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According to him, when we told them that we didn\u2019t have much money, they asked us about the Toyota Highlander and we told them that it was part of what we sold out to raise the money we planned to give them.<\/p>\n
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Mr Olasinde, who said they were able to raise about N2.8 million, said the kidnappers directed them to bring the ransom Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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