An Abuja-based lawyer, Opeyemi Adewale has narrated her ordeal in the hands of kidnappers who abducted her in the Federal Capital Territory on September 26, 2023.

Mrs Adewale said her husband and colleague paid the sum of N1 million before she was released.

She said her ordeal all started when she boarded a 14-seater bus at a park in Lugbe not knowing that it was a “one-chance” bus.

The woman said she realised that she was in trouble when the man who sat beside her started beating her, adding that out of all the occupants of the bus, only she and two other women were real passengers.

Opeyemi Adewale, “They started beating me and the other two ladies in the vehicle. When they were done, they asked what I do for a living, I lied that I was a teacher that just resigned. They asked how much I earned, I said it was less than N30,000. Then they asked about my husband, I said he too is a poor trader.

They checked my bag, saw my ATM card, and requested my PIN. They emptied my account, collected all the cash on me and asked me to call my family that they were taking us to Kaduna and that one Alhaji was going to use us for a ritual but if we could call someone to pay a ransom of N1m they would release us.”

The lawyer said while she was making attempts to speak with her family members to raise funds for her release, her abductors kept driving around the city.

 According to her, around midnight, her husband and colleagues were able to raise funds that were sent to the robbers before she was released.

She noted that the money was sent to her account while the kidnappers withdrew it from a POS operator.