My Captors Almost Used Me For A Ritual - Osun Legislator's Father

Adewunmi Kofoworola Babajide's father, the legislator representing Ede North State constituency in the Osun State Assembly, Pa Muftau Lawal, told how his captors almost used him for rituals .

Pa Lawal, who was abducted outside his house in Ede more than a month ago, recounted his ordeal at the hands of his captors.

The octogenarian, whose son is also the minority leader in the Osun Assembly in an interview with Ede on Saturday, revealed that he was caught off guard when individuals came to his house on motorbikes and started threatening to kill him.

According to him, "I was in front of my house in the evening when I saw these people in large numbers. They got off the motorbikes and children who were playing next to me ran away. Some of them said that they should burn me alive while others said they should shoot me and i was already scared when one of them said they should pour gasoline on me and set me on fire .

"Shortly after they left, another group of people arrived and, immediately after getting off the motorbike, ordered me to get on the motorbike. I asked them where are you taking me? One replied: "We are taking you to meet your son, Akogun". Because of my age, my sight is already blurry, I couldn't see well as we went. But after a while I noticed that we were on the road to Ilesha, because that was my road when I was young.

"I asked again where are you taking me and the one behind me said 'if you ask again we'll kill you here'. I stopped asking them questions. We were going to high speed. Then it was already dark, so I can't see anything.

“Later we came to a place, there is a house there and I was asked to come in. I met an old man with a boy, the man is a herbalist and he welcomed me. Those who carried me to the place left. I saw the herbalist consulting his oracle; after many incantations, the herbalist asked me if we had a deity in our family and I told him no, we don't have a deity but my wife family has one they worship which is "Sango" - God of lightning.The herbalist then said "I can see" shaking head. Later I noticed that he was calling those who brought me to him to come and carry me so that I could not be used.

"Those who brought me didn't answer and I was there for weeks before they came back six days ago around 3am to carry me. As we were going in the middle of the night I noticed a car coming behind us and soon after the motorbike they were using to transport me stopped and I was asked to get in the car. transported me to Lokoja in the morning.

"The car, which transported me, after arriving in Lokoja, asked any police station to introduce me and explain how I got there, what I did. It was there in the station that they contacted people in Osun to get my son's phone number, they called him to let him know that I was coming to tell him how I got to Lokoja. It was my son who arranged my return to Osun."

When asked if he had been picked up by the police in Osun State, Lawal said he met the Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, who asked him questions and then asked one of his men to take his statement before he was asked to be taken away. in Ede.

The octogenarian, who lamented that everything he had been burned, noted that the cloth he was wearing was the only one left.

He added that it was a Lokoja policeman who gave him a sandal he wore in Osun.

He also urged the Nigerian police to unravel those responsible for the crisis in Ede and bring those who kidnapped him to justice.

Recall that in August, tensions erupted in Ede when Osun Assembly Minority Leader Kofoworola Babajide was accused of inviting police officers to kill and harass members of his party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) at a neighborhood meeting in Ede. .

During the ensuing scuffle, two people were reportedly shot dead by a police officer.

Furthermore, during the chaos, Osun's minority leader, who exonerated himself of being behind the killings, said his father's house was razed and he disappeared.< /p>