A contract journalist, Oluwatosin Oshibanjo, who was just lately kidnapped by some unidentified gunmen in his Ijebu residence within the Ijebu-Ode Native Authorities Space of Ogun State, has been discovered.
Oluwatosin’s mom, Tokunbo Bakre, confirmed to our correspondent in a phone dialog over the weekend that he was discovered unconscious by some motorcyclists within the Ijebu-Ode space of the state.
PUNCH Metro reported on Thursday that Bakre disclosed that the kidnapping got here after Oluwatosin intervened in a human rights violation case involving a woman and a pastor.
Bakre had instructed our correspondent in a phone dialog that the stated girl had accused the pastor of allegedly impregnating her and forcing her to hold out abortions a number of occasions. She had refused the final try and coerce her into it.
The woman was stated to have been delivered of a child, which she claimed the pastor was answerable for, however the pastor reportedly denied accountability.
Confirming that Oluwatosin has been discovered, Bakre stated he was left in a foul and unconscious state by the abductors.
“Now we have seen him. I used to be referred to as by some Hausa guys who stated they noticed him by the roadside. I went there and located him bare and unconscious. He’s presently in hospital,” Bakre stated.
In a phone dialog with PUNCH Metro on Sunday, Oluwatosin narrated his expertise within the fingers of the abductors, stressing that he was brutalised, tortured, and dumped by the roadside.
He defined that the abductors launched him after they learnt he had been declared lacking and that the police have been on their path.
Oluwatosin famous that the abductors claimed to not be kidnappers however cultists and have been allegedly engaged by somebody displeased along with his work.
He narrated, “I used to be on a name with my spouse on Tuesday morning once I heard a knock on the door. Upon opening the door, two guys have been attempting to drive themselves in, and I requested them who they have been, however they introduced out a gun and marched me out to their automobile, a pink Huge Daddy Toyota, with one other two guys seated inside.
“They drove in direction of Ososa Highway, they usually have been arguing that this was TMC. At some extent, they made a U-turn again to Ijebu-Ode, blindfolded me, made two left turns, and dragged me right into a home.
“They stored discussing, pulled off my shorts, poured water on me, sellotaped my mouth, and tightened the blindfold. They hit me on the leg, and my legs grew to become heavy. They dragged me inside a car.”
He added that after some time, he grew to become unconscious, and when he awakened, he heard them discussing that the matter had escalated and that their work was about to get them into hassle.
Oluwatosin famous that he was taken to a tiled room the place the abductors stated they weren’t kidnappers however cultists. He pressured that regardless of his pleas for meals, they refused to feed him.
“I used to be dragged right into a automobile however sensed it was completely different from the one they used to select me up on Tuesday. They stored driving and driving earlier than they immediately stopped, eliminated the blindfold, and pushed me to the bottom bare.
“I managed to name for assist however couldn’t, so I began crawling till a motorbike man stopped and solely eliminated the sellotape from my mouth and left. I received to a bunch of individuals, however their voices appeared like Hausa. One in all them lined me with garments and requested whom I knew. I instructed him my mum and gave him her telephone quantity. I bear in mind vividly seeing my mum earlier than I later discovered myself within the hospital.”
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, couldn’t be reached for feedback on the incident, as calls and messages to her line have been but to be responded to on the time of submitting this report.