A 14-year-old boy who was kidnapped on Monday, August 2, has narrated his ordeal in the kidnapper’s den and how he escaped from captivity.
Felix Adekunle, who hawks slippers on the streets in Owo, Ondo State, narrated how he was lured by the kidnappers.
Felix said he was tricked by the three men before they bundled him into a waiting car.
He said: “The incident happened on Monday when I was hawking slippers around the community and when I was leaving Okemapo area I saw the three men who told me some of my wares had fallen.
“I tried to look for it and in the process, they dragged me into a tinted Toyota Camry car and I slept off. It was in the building that I woke up and found myself in a blue dilapidated building inside the forest.
“I saw a woman crying with her hands tied backwards sitting by a headless body of a young person who she told me was her child.
“I could not see anyone but I was hearing the men’s voices inside the house. The woman told me to remove the rope they used to tie her and we fled together.
“While fleeing, the woman fell and gave me N500 while she urged me to keep running and escape from the forest. I heard gunshots from the house while I was running which made me run as faster as I could.
“When I got to the main road, I was tired and saw some people selling bread by the roadside and narrated my ordeal to them. They called the officials of Amotekun who responded swiftly and took me to their office.”
The mother of the boy, Mrs Abosede Adekunle, said a search party had been organised by the family when her son did not return home on time.
She said: “We are supposed to get a call from Amotekun office that we should report to their office. But later I received a call from the office of the Amotekun informing me that my boy was kidnapped but had been rescued.”
The Commander of Amotekun in the state, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, who confirmed the incident, said the boy was handed over to his mother in Akure, on Monday evening.
He said: “We got a distress call that some vehicles drove recklessly along Benin/Owo road. While tracing the vehicle we later ran into the young boy who said he was running away from three kidnappers from Owo.
“The victim also explained that the only thing he could remember was a Camry car without a plate number and having tinted glasses. He added that he became unconscious immediately he was pushed into the car.
“He explained to us that the area, where he was kidnapped from, was isolated as he could not call on anyone. We took him away from the danger zone to our office, where he narrated his experience that three men tricked him that one of his wares had fallen off and dragged him into their vehicle and zoomed off to an unknown place and that he managed to escape from the place.”
