The three medical personnel, including the former
Edo State Chairman of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Phillip Ugbodaga,
who were kidnapped recently in Imo State, have regained their freedom.
The other two kidnap victims were Mrs. Anne Usman, a
Matron in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City and Mr. Sunny
Omo-Alasa, a health worker.
Narrating their ordeal to newsmen in Owerri, Mrs.
Usman said: “When we got to Orlu that night, we did not know the right way to
Uburu Ekwe. So, we hired a commercial motorcyclist to direct us. Just a few
minutes after we started the journey, a sports utility vehicle overtook our car
and blocked us”.
Continuing, the badly shaken lady recounted that a
young man that was armed with an AK 47 rifle, clad in the Civil Defence
uniform, jumped out of their vehicle and ordered the medical personnel to get
out of the vehicle.
“Three of us were ordered into the hoodlums’ SUV.
They quickly reversed and sped off to their den, through a very lonely road.
All the efforts by residents of the community to flag the vehicle down that
night, were rebuffed”, the woman recalled with grief.
She also recalled that as the hoodlums were driving
to their den, they were intermittently making calls to their colleagues, urging
them to be on the alert as they were “coming with consignments.”
“When we go there, they took our bags and led us
into the bush. They ordered us to sit on the bare ground, under one big tree.
They chained our legs. From October 16 until we were rescued, we were
blindfolded. They were giving us Gala and water,” Usman said.
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