Man Who Was Kidnapped In Fiditi Escapes His Abductors

Gunmen on Monday, invaded a farm in Fiditi town, Oyo state, living one man dead and another kidnapped.

The man who was killed in the incident was said to be a customer of the Living Yield Farms who was at the scene when the farm was invaded.

The other, who was abducted is the farm's security guard. The security guard was however reported to have escaped from his abductors’ hideout inside the forest due to the heavy presence of Police personnel in the area in the early hours of Thursday, March 18, 2021.

According to information gathered, the gunmen, seven in number, arrived at the farm at the time when the workers were closing for the day with five of them armed with AK-47 rifles and other guns.

 It was revealed that they searched for victims to kidnap, with one of them targeting the farm manager, Mr. Adelakun Sunday, at the time he was about leaving his office. The kidnapper was said to have headed towards the manager's office which made the manager retreat to his office, lock the door, ran to his toilet, and climbed up the ceiling to hide.

Infuriated by the manager’s move, the kidnap gang member started pumping bullets into the office door, but could not gain entry.

The manager could also hear other kidnappers shooting sporadically until he heard no more noise about five minutes later. Waiting for another 10 minutes to make sure the kidnappers had gone, Mr Sunday reportedly descended from the ceiling and came out.

However, he noticed that the kidnappers had ransacked his Mercedes Benz car parked within the farm premises.

Also, it was discovered that the security guard, an indigene of Plateau State, called Felix, had been taken away by the abductors.

It was later gathered that the manager and others discovered the body of a customer, an Igede man from Benue State, during a search around the farm.

The deceased, who was said to have come to the farm on his Bajaj motorcycle, had bought two dead chickens, which he had put in a sack before he met his death.

When police were informed, the Nigerian Tribune learned that they went to the farm to recover the body of the deceased man, and took it to the mortuary at a hospital for autopsy.

They were said to have found three expended shells of AK-47 rifle bullets and one empty cartridge shell at the scene.

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They also started combing the bush to search for the kidnappers, to rescue the security guard.

However, the security man was said to have escaped from his abductors in the middle of the night, without payment of any ransom when he noticed that the abductors had fallen asleep.

He was said to have shown up on Thursday morning. When contacted, the state police spokesman, Chief Superintendent of Police Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the story, attributing the escape of the victim to pressure put on the abductors by the police, through a continuous search for the criminals who tried to hide to evade arrest.

He said that the body of the deceased had been deposited in the mortuary at State Hospital, Oyo, for autopsy, while investigation had commenced into the incident.