How I Escaped Abduction - Osun Admission Seeker
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A 19-year-old admission seeker, Ewaoluwa Oluwatofunmi, living in Ilesa, Osun State, recounted how she and 12 other passengers traveling from Osogbo to Ilesa escaped abduction.
Ewaoluwa, in an interview on Monday, told The PUNCH that she boarded a bus going to Ilesa from Osogbo at a park in the Ilesa garage area of the state capital of Osun around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Halfway through the trip, Ewaoluwa said three out of five male passengers who sat in the back seat of the bus told the driver to stop the vehicle because they wanted to relieve themselves.
She said, "Around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, I went to Ilesha garage in Osogbo to get on a bus to Ilesha. When I arrived at the park, I met 5 men and a few ladies at the 'inside the bus. We moved once the bus was full, but when we got to a brushy area between Osogbo and Ilesa, three of the men in the back told the driver to pull over so they could urinate.
"The driver made them and when they got off they asked the others inside the bus to also get off and urinate. But we told them that we were mature enough to know if we wanted to urinate Later, one of them lied to the driver saying that one of the tires of the bus was deflected. The driver got off and the other people in the bus also fell.
"A few minutes before it happened, I was on the phone with my dad talking and I didn't end the call when I got off the bus. As soon as we got off the bus, the men pulled out guns and asked us to move into the bush.We walked for a few minutes inside the bush until the men stopped us and asked us to take out all the valuables we had. we had on us.
"I handed over my big phone to the kidnappers but I kept the small phone I used to talk to my parents in my pocket without ending the call, so they could hear that we were in danger. We were doing this when suddenly we heard the police siren and it scared off the kidnappers who were heavily armed and spoke in pidgin English. They ran away and left us there."
When contacted, State Police Command spokesman Yemisi Opalola confirmed the incident via text message.
The post read, "The combined efforts of the police and hunters saved the victims."
Please share this story:
A 19-year-old admission seeker, Ewaoluwa Oluwatofunmi, living in Ilesa, Osun State, recounted how she and 12 other passengers traveling from Osogbo to Ilesa escaped abduction.
Ewaoluwa, in an interview on Monday, told The PUNCH that she boarded a bus going to Ilesa from Osogbo at a park in the Ilesa garage area of the state capital of Osun around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Halfway through the trip, Ewaoluwa said three out of five male passengers who sat in the back seat of the bus told the driver to stop the vehicle because they wanted to relieve themselves.
She said, "Around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, I went to Ilesha garage in Osogbo to get on a bus to Ilesha. When I arrived at the park, I met 5 men and a few ladies at the 'inside the bus. We moved once the bus was full, but when we got to a brushy area between Osogbo and Ilesa, three of the men in the back told the driver to pull over so they could urinate.
"The driver made them and when they got off they asked the others inside the bus to also get off and urinate. But we told them that we were mature enough to know if we wanted to urinate Later, one of them lied to the driver saying that one of the tires of the bus was deflected. The driver got off and the other people in the bus also fell.
"A few minutes before it happened, I was on the phone with my dad talking and I didn't end the call when I got off the bus. As soon as we got off the bus, the men pulled out guns and asked us to move into the bush.We walked for a few minutes inside the bush until the men stopped us and asked us to take out all the valuables we had. we had on us.
"I handed over my big phone to the kidnappers but I kept the small phone I used to talk to my parents in my pocket without ending the call, so they could hear that we were in danger. We were doing this when suddenly we heard the police siren and it scared off the kidnappers who were heavily armed and spoke in pidgin English. They ran away and left us there."
When contacted, State Police Command spokesman Yemisi Opalola confirmed the incident via text message.
The post read, "The combined efforts of the police and hunters saved the victims."
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