Exclusive: How driver, three others abducted seven passengers in Delta

An unidentified commercial driver on Tuesday March 17 abducted a two-year old baby and six other passengers, returning from Eku Market in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Fresh Angle International has learnt.

The abduction reportedly occurred along the Eku Road (Ogborie, Palm Tree Plantation) at Orerokpe Local Government Area of the State, when the commercial driver made a surprise stop and ordered the innocent passengers to come down. It was in the course of an argument that ensued between the passengers and the purported commercial driver that three masked men believed to be members of the kidnap gang came out from the bush and joined the driver to force the passengers into the bush.

Fresh Angle International reliably gathered that it was the cry of one of the victims, a two-year old baby boy that rescued his mother from the kidnappers. The kidnappers asked who the mother of the crying baby that was causing alarm likely to expose them.

25-year old mother of the baby boy, Mrs. Ogaga Otagba, explained, “I entered a kidnappers’ vehicle without knowing that the driver was a kidnapper and he stopped us on the way, and commanded us to come down from the vehicle and entered into a bush path, suddenly three masked men putting on black mask appeared from nowhere and abducted us”.

She stated that it was her son’s persistent cry that made the kidnappers to release her, noting that it was God’s divine intervention that saved her life, when her son cried, “mummy, daddy make we dey goooo, make we dey goooo”. According to her, it was the cry of her son that made the kidnappers got angry and asked whose son was that? She told Our Correspondent that she replied, “he is my son” and “I was ordered by the kidnappers to run away with my son for our dear lives”.

Mrs. Otagba noted that she and her son were knocked down by a motorcycle rider as she scampered for safety to a major road, where she finally located her way home. “I was knocked down by a motorcycle (Okada), when I was running to save our lives and it was that same motorcycle that took us to our destination, PTI Junction”.

She added, “there are still five other victims that remains (sic) in the kidnappers’ den and I pray that the God that saved me and my son will also save them”.

Meanwhile, the driver that kidnapped the seven passengers allegedly went to off-load their goods and personal effects at PTI Junction, Effurun, Delta State.

By: Akpobome Ikikiru

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