Toyin Nwosu, the wife of the Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of the Sun Newspapers, spoke on her three-day ordeal in the hands of her abductors in Lagos, revealing that her abductors said they were paid to kill her.
“When I was in their captivity, they told me that somebody paid for my death. It was stated that they were hired to kill me. I don’t know why yet.
“They came into my house, packed many things; jewelries, wristwatches and gold. From there they took me away.
“They took me to their camp. They took me away in a boat. I was put in the jungle not in a room. At the jungle, my face was not covered. It was in the bush that I spent three nights until I was released.
“It took them 30 minutes to take me in the speed boat to the jungle. On my way, it was dark I could only hear noise. I could not see anything.
“Throughout my stay, they asked me to eat but I refused. They were even begging me to eat. They asked me to request for any kind of food I wanted.
“They did that because they were expecting money but thank God, something touched their heart. And now I am alive. I was the only person there.
“At a point I was begging them to please release me. They told me that my husband didn’t want to pay. I told them that my husband does not have money; that he is a journalist.
“I was begging them all the while, especially the one that was beside me. I told him to plead with his brothers. He said he was going to try.
“When I learnt that I was going home I was so happy. The one that was communicating with my husband called me and begged me to eat that he heard that I didn’t want to eat.
” It was in the process of begging me that he told me that I would be going home on Thursday. After he told me I could not close my eyes again. When night came my heart was at home already.
“They told me that I should hold on, that that don’t want to bring me out in the day light. When night came, they dropped me under the FESTAC Town new bridge around 2:15am.
“They did not give me money for transport because they knew someone would be waiting for me there. The only thing that they gave me was a phone that when I get to the land, I should call my husband.”
“This will not stop me from doing what I do best, which is helping people. I will continue to do good.
“I thank God and every other person that played a role in my freedom. I thank all Nigerians. Irrespective of what happened, I will keep doing good.
“I believe that the good I am doing will surely get me to higher place. Many times, that goodness turns sour, but I will encourage people to not be weighed down by how people pay back goodness.
“I don’t know why they treated me the way they did but I strongly believed that it was prayer that was at work. It was God that made them treat me nicely. But criminals will always be criminals. ”
