Olayinka Ilori/
One of the survivors in yesterdays kidnapping, in which a lecturer of Igbinedion University, was killed has told how the bandits took a special interest in her after they shot the Don who tried to escape.
In an exclusive chat, Margaret told NewsmakersNG that one of the kidnappers suggested that they should keep her as a maid to be cooking for them in the bush when they were about to set the others free.
“But, another member of the gang overruled. He said, ‘Let us leave them; they are poor Nigerians,” Margaret said.
Margaret revealed that the bandits had fired gunshots after four passengers and the bus driver who fled into the bush as they were about to be abducted. That was when their bullets hit the university lecturer, Kelvin Izevbekhai, who was a first class graduate.
As soon as they took their victims far into the forest, the bandits who were described as illiterates gave Margaret a task to read out the particulars of every victim from their ID cards.
“They could not read. They searched everybody, brought out their ID cards and ordered me to read the details out,” Margaret said.
NewsmakersNG was told that one of the victims who was found to be a policeman was mercilessly beaten.
Asked if they were Fulani as people had earlier suspected, Margaret said one was speaking Yoruba and the others were speaking pidgin.
She said they must have thought that the air-conditioned bus with tinted glass was loaded with very important persons.
The bus marked AGB 294 YV belonging to ‘God is Good Motors’ took off from Ajah, in Lagos, heading for Uyo, in Akwa Ibom State, early yesterday.
The kidnappers ambushed the bus near Okada junction along the Benin-Ore expressway.
Five out of the seven abducted victims were set free, after about five hours in the bush.
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