The kidnapped factional chairman of Edo IPMAN,Alhaji Abdul-Hamid Egele,
who was released by his abductors on Thursday has described his experiences as horrible, as he said he ate a piece of apple a day for the fourteen days he spent In his abductors den.
He admonished Nigerians to come together to salvage the country from its current challenges.
Speaking with newsmen in Benin on Sunday, Egele appealed to the people not to shy away from going home as doing so will not solve the problem of kidnapping and insecurity.
“I want to advise the people not to be discourage and run away from home, we must come together in prayers and salvage the country together.
“I have discovered that the Police and Army in the whole world cannot solve what is happening together, but almighty Allah,
It was a terrible experience in the hands of the kidnappers as I ate a piece of apple on each day of the 14-days I spent in the forest with them.
“Though I was
“It was the day I heard I was going to be released that I demanded for a tin of milk; they obliged me with pap.
“I needed it for strength because I knew I was going to trek long distance upon my release,” he said.
He commended his well-wishers and Muslim clerics who all prayed for his safe return.
It would be recalled that Egele was kidnapped on Monday, February 7th in Jattu, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo when he was returning home after the day’s business.
His driver and police orderly were both killed in the process of his abduction by the gunmen who had trailed him to his house.
He was howeve released 14-days later by his abductors after payment of N70 million ransom.
