The father of two abducted children in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, Lukman Aliyu, has explained how his two daughters were kidnapped.
According to him, they were whisked away on 13th October, 2022 after the abductors stormed their house situated at the Alagbado area, Okelele Quarters of Ilorin metropolis.
Narrating his ordeal, he said, “I was attacked at my Alagbado residence and my two children abducted at gunpoint at about 12 midnight on the fateful day.
“My wife told one of my children to wake me up to put off the generator and as I finished putting off the generator, and about to go back to my bedroom, my wife came to alert me that she suspected some strange movements of people around the house.
“I then went out to check but could not find anyone, by the time I went back into my room, I observed that the window of my room was being pulled down with the burglary proof already destroyed.
“I then shouted for help but the sporadic gunshots by the armed kidnappers scared our neighbours from coming to the rescue.
“The back door to the house was sprayed with bullets and I jammed the door leading to my bedroom and hid my wife and children in another room for safety.”
Continuing, he stated that the abductors succeeded in cutting the lower part of the door with a machete to gain access into the building amid sporadic gunshots.
He said when they eventually entered the house, and stormed the room where he had hidden the wife and children, they requested for him but assumed he had died in the sporadic gunshots.
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Lukman revealed that the kidnappers seized the key to his bedroom from the wife after hitting her on the chest, entered his room and stole the money they found as well as his wife’s money, phone, loaves of bread, drinks, two phones of his abducted children, and phones of neighbours who came to recharge in the house.
The distraught father said the following day of the attack, people called his phone number but the kidnappers failed to respond.
He said the kidnappers later called his friend’s phone number to enquire about the people close to him from his abducted children and one Alhaji Ladi was reached.
Lukman said the kidnappers told Alhaji Ladi to come with a ransom of N20m for the freedom of the two abducted children or risk losing them.
He said, “The kidnappers said they were demanding the amount because they had never wasted the number of bullets expended in that operation before.”
On how they were released from the kidnappers’ den, he said they collected N5m ransom, packages of milk, fearless drink, Goldberg beer and assorted recharge cards.
He also revealed that they gave his two abducted children N500 each to buy soap to wash their clothes after their release.
They also collected N5m ransom, packages of milk, fearless drink, Goldberg beer and assorted recharge cards before setting the two abducted children free.
The invasion of Lukman Aliyu’s family residence occurred at Alagbado area, Okelele Quarters of Ilorin metropolis.