The Instant Previous Chairman of the Imo State Council of Conventional Rulers, His Royal Majesty, Eze Samuel Ohiri, who was lately kidnapped by unknown gunmen, has vehemently contradicted the social media stories, attributing his freedom from the abductors' den to the tactical intervention of the Nigerian police. Cops.
He stated he paid the ransom (undisclosed) in two installments after spending 12 days within the kidnappers' den. He additionally stated that no try was made by the police whereas he was being kidnapped.
In his speech at his palace, Eze Ohiri claimed that the police performed no position within the drama that led to his regained freedom.
He stated, “I wouldn't have opened up however I’ve to take motion this time to inform the world the reality due to the viral submit on social media. I don't prefer it when a company that hides below the cloak of the federal government, speaks lies, misleads society and glorifies itself.”
Narrating his ordeal, Eze Ohiri stated he got here again to have fun Christmas 2023 and New 12 months 2024 together with his household, folks of Obi Orodo neighborhood, folks of Mbaitoli Native Authorities Space and Imo State basically so he wakened early . hour of that fateful day, on January 6, 2024, to finish up within the fingers of “what I can describe as “cruel boys (males).”
He stated, “After I returned round 8:30 am, after visiting certainly one of my outdated boys, who’s a resident of my neighborhood, I sadly met able-bodied males in my palace, popping out of their home. automobile and, after a horrible wrestle, introduced me into their automobile. I used to be pressured to go in, however I thank God that nobody was shot, as a result of they have been with weapons. I thank God once more, when my cousin brother cleverly launched himself to them as my driver and was launched. They blindfolded me and zoomed off to an unknown location.
“They first stored me in an unfinished constructing earlier than I used to be transferred to a different place. I noticed hell through the twelve days I spent with my captors. At first it appeared that they’d some particular scores to settle with conventional rulers and politicians, however thankfully for me, their chief got here to the camp and ordered them to not torture me as a result of I’m an honest human being.
“It was then that negotiations between my folks and the abductors started. It in the end resulted in me regaining my freedom after the primary and second ransoms have been paid.”
He stated they took him together with one other sufferer at evening to Eziama Obiato, a neighborhood in Mbaitoli council space, alongside the Onitsha-Owerri freeway. From there he discovered his approach again to Owerri on the in style checkpoint intersection the place his folks got here and took him again to the palace.
He added: 'Whereas I used to be within the research my meals consisted of water, two sips of gala and typically bread and water at evening. That's why I described them as cruel.”
