Forty-Two Days in Captivity: An Ekiti Farm Manager’s Kidnap Ordeal

I was managing a farm in Ekiti when seven armed men stormed our workplace. They carried AK-47 rifles, abducted me and my colleagues, and took my phone, my handbag and the ₦8,000 I held for workers. They tied our hands, marched us through forest and river and demanded ₦100 million for me and ₦50 million for the tractor operator. My employer blocked my calls, so my mother raised ₦2 million at first and later ₦15 million in cash and goods—malt, milk, drinks, phones, clothes, rice and beans—but the kidnappers still beat us and refused to release us. On the 22nd day they handed me to a deadlier gang in Kwara state. Of the eleven hostages, I was the last one held despite a ₦350 million payment by the state government. They then asked for ₦2 million more, which my mother borrowed and paid—but I remained captive. On the 42nd day, a guard abandoned his post and I escaped. When will insecurity end in Nigeria?

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