Patience Stephen/
A man in Lagos has told NewsmakersNG how his family survived an evil encounter in the hands of kidnappers.
Gbengà Tonade and his British wife, Mrs Amy Riley-Tonade are still in shock after suspected kidnappers descended on them and their one-year-old daughter in Lagos.
Mrs Riley-Tonade, a British citizen residing in Birmingham West Midland in United Kingdom and the daughter were visiting her husband in Lagos, but the happy moment the family was spending together turned sour when they were attacked with dangerous weapons along Ladipo-Mushin Road.
Mr Tonade who is recovering from injures inflicted on him by the hoodlums recalled that moment his family came face to face with death.
He said, “My British wife and our one-year-old daughter came from Birmingham United Kingdom to visit me. We went out to spend quality family time together but on our way back home, some men armed with dangerous weapons such as cut to size gun and meat cleaver attempted to seize my wife, Mrs. Amy Riley Tonade, and our baby daughter, she was carrying, in a tricycle. The hoodlums were saying “today is your doom day and today you have nowhere to run to”.
” I pleaded with them to spare our lives but one of the hoodlums pulled out a meat cleaver to cut me. I quickly held on to it. I struggled with him. Another hoodlum hit me with an object on my neck but I refused to let go of the meat cleaver.
“One of the hoodlums shouted: “Kill them, kill them if they don’t want to cooperate. At this point my wife and daughter were screaming. Their shout attracted the attention of passers-by who came to our rescue. Seeing that they were unable to carry out their sinister motives against us, the hoodlums fled and left us alone. At this time, I had sustained a stiff neck and injuries. My wife and daughter were rushed to the General Hospital at Isolo in Lagos.
“My wife and daughter were in shock and as soon as they were released from the hospital, my wife hurriedly took my daughter and they have since returned to the United Kingdom while I am recuperating from the injuries after I was treated in the hospital.”
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