A Lagos-based furnishings maker, Omoosumi Samuel, also referred to as Toby Woods, has used his X-handle to relate his experiences by the hands of kidnappers.
PUNCH Metro reported on Tuesday that 24-year-old Toby Woods, who lives together with his elder brother, went lacking final Wednesday and was reported lacking by his household in Gbagada space of Lagos State.
Toby Woods, who runs furnishings retailer 360 Furnishings, defined how he was kidnapped on a bus and the way he managed to flee in a sequence of tweets on his X account on Tuesday night.
He wrote: 'On Wednesday afternoon I left my home to get supplies for my work at Mushin. Once I arrived in Oshodi, I made a decision to go to Ikeja first to resolve my telephone's charging port problem which I had been pushing aside getting mounted for some time.
“I boarded a bus (korope) in Oshodi to Ikeja. There have been individuals on the bus too, however a couple of minutes later I observed that I used to be getting weak. I assumed I used to be hungry as a result of I hadn't eaten something all day.
“That was the tip. The following factor I wakened, tied up and lined with a material overlaying my face, I heard voices of individuals round me, I don't understand how many individuals had been with me as a result of my face was lined. We had been taken one after the other to a different room the place they’d entry to our telephones and we had been returned to the unique room.”
He went on to clarify that he observed individuals had been once more being taken out of the room one after the other, however this time nobody was introduced again.
He added: “I used to be actually scared at that second as a result of I assumed this was the tip. They took me too and I felt the identical weak spot as on the bus.
“The following second I wakened in the midst of nowhere with blood on my garments and some cuts on my physique. God led me to a home and I met an outdated girl. I hardly understood her, however she noticed my situation and gave me water to drink and slippers to placed on and confirmed me the way in which.”
The furnishings maker defined that he had no thought he had been lacking for therefore lengthy as a result of his face was lined throughout the kidnapping.
He wrote: 'I had no thought I used to be gone for therefore lengthy as a result of my face was lined the whole time I used to be kidnapped. I additionally had no thought what time it was.
“I finished the primary particular person I noticed and he helped me and informed me I used to be in Ogun State. He helped me discover my option to Lagos and I boarded a bus to Oshodi.
“A stranger helped me pay my transportation prices and in addition gave me some cash for explaining every part to him. I additionally known as a quantity I remembered, but it surely didn't undergo.
“I slept the whole journey and after I arrived in Oshodi, I knew I used to be already secure. I boarded a bus in direction of Ikorodu and alighted at Agric, the place I received one thing to eat with the cash the stranger gave me. I took the bike residence and was informed I might be residence round midday.”
A #HassanSZNN who had additionally shared on X posts that Toby Wooden was lacking confirmed that he has returned residence.
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