A kidnap victim has taken to Twitter to narrate how she was allegedly abducted, beaten and raped repeatedly by some gunmen during her travel to Rivers State.
The woman, with the Twitter handle @Blessedcindy0, claimed that she was kidnapped along with five others on June 23, 2021.
She shared a photo of her bruised face and revealed she’s receiving treatment in the hospital.
Narrating her experience, Blessed Cindy said she boarded a vehicle at a park in Enugu without any premonition of evil.
The victim said once the journey began she sent a text to her sister, and she felt something cold on the tip of her nose, which must have knocked her off because she could not recollect how she disembarked.
“When I woke up, the six of us were tied to a chair in a bungalow. I immediately knew I had been kidnapped. There was this guy sitting down with a gun looking at us without saying a word until one huge-looking man came out of the bungalow and started telling us to pray. He first gave us a hot slap; after that, he told us that we had been kidnapped and that we should not be afraid that as soon as our relatives cooperated with them, nothing’s going to happen to us,” she added.
Blessed Cindy claimed her sister sold some property and borrowed money to pay the ransom of N2m demanded by the kidnappers.
She further said that the abductors warned her sister not to inform any security agency because neither the police nor the military could do anything about the situation.
She claimed to have witnessed the killing of two of the six victims they were captured together because their families could not meet the demands. She said three other victims were released after paying N2m each.
“The name of one of us was Philip. When he asked him who to call to demand ransom, Philip said he doesn’t have anyone to call and that he is just a normal businessman trying to make ends meet.
“When they called my sister, they instructed her not to tell the police or army and that there’s nothing they can do (that was when I knew my own was finished); they told my sister that she’ll pay N3,000,000 or she won’t see me again.
“My father is not too strong, so my sister had to keep everything away from my father. Two people were killed right in front of me (Philip and one other girl) because they couldn’t meet up with their demands and the other three people were released after the payment of N2,000,000 ransom each.
“They didn’t kill me because my sister was picking up calls even after a week and cooperating with them. My sister had to sell some things and borrow up to pay N2,000,000. Even at that, from the 26 June 2021, every night they beat me and I was raped by two of them.”
Blessed Cindy said she was dropped off at night at Four Corners Junction near Agbani in the Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State and was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment.
“I can’t take Philip and that girl they killed off my head. They killed and cut them into pieces. Where they kept us, I can still recognise how the place looks like. When they wanted to drop me after my sister paid, they met the police on their way and the police didn’t bother to look inside the car. They just let them through. Oh my goodness God! They also took everything I had left in my account, which was about N268,000. Nigeria has failed me. I sleep and wake up with this traumatic experience and feel like committing suicide,” she added.
