A contract journalist, Oluwatosin Oshibanjo, who used to be not too long ago kidnapped via some unidentified gunmen in his Ijebu house within the Ijebu-Ode Native Executive Segment of Ogun Surrounding, has been discovered.
Oluwatosin’s mom, Tokunbo Bakre, showed to our correspondent in a phone dialog over the weekend that he used to be discovered subconscious via some motorcyclists within the Ijebu-Ode department of the condition.
PUNCH Metro reported on Thursday that Bakre disclosed that the kidnapping got here upcoming Oluwatosin intervened in a human rights violation case involving a girl and a pastor.
Bakre had instructed our correspondent in a phone dialog that the mentioned woman had accused the pastor of allegedly impregnating her and forcing her to hold out abortions a number of instances. She had refused the closing struggle to coerce her into it.
The woman used to be mentioned to were delivered of a child, which she claimed the pastor used to be liable for, however the pastor reportedly denied duty.
Confirming that Oluwatosin has been discovered, Bakre mentioned he used to be left in a sinful and subconscious condition via the kidnappers.
“We have seen him. I was called by some Hausa guys who said they saw him by the roadside. I went there and found him naked and unconscious. He is currently in hospital,” Bakre mentioned.
In a phone dialog with PUNCH Metro on Sunday, Oluwatosin narrated his enjoy within the palms of the kidnappers, stressing that he used to be brutalised, tortured, and dumped via the roadside.
He defined that the kidnappers immune him after they learnt he were declared lacking and that the police have been on their path.
Oluwatosin famous that the kidnappers claimed to not be kidnappers however cultists and have been allegedly occupied via any person displeased along with his paintings.
He narrated, “I used to be on a choice with my spouse on Tuesday morning once I heard a knock at the door. Upon opening the door, two guys have been looking to power themselves in, and I requested them who they have been, however they introduced out a gun and marched me out to their automobile, a purple Obese Daddy Toyota, with any other two guys seated within.
“They drove against Ososa Highway, and so they have been arguing that this used to be TMC. At some degree, they made a U-turn again to Ijebu-Ode, blindfolded me, made two left turns, and dragged me right into a area.
“They kept 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 became heavy. They dragged me inside a vehicle.”
He added that upcoming a time, he was subconscious, and when he awoke, he heard them discussing that the subject had escalated and that their paintings used to be about to get them into bother.
Oluwatosin famous that he used to be taken to a tiled room the place the kidnappers mentioned they weren’t kidnappers however cultists. He wired that regardless of his pleas for meals, they refused to feed him.
“I used to be dragged right into a automobile however sensed it used to be other from the only they impaired to select me up on Tuesday. They saved riding and riding earlier than they forbidden, got rid of the blindfold, and driven me to the farmland bare.
“I managed to call for help but couldn’t, so I started crawling until a bike man stopped and only removed the sellotape from my mouth and left. I got to a group of people, but their voices sounded like Hausa. One of them covered me with clothes and asked whom I knew. I told him my mum and gave him her phone number. I remember vividly seeing my mum before I later found myself in the hospital.”
When contacted, the condition Police People Members of the family Officer, Omolola Odutola, may just now not be reached for feedback at the incident, as yelps and messages to her order have been but to be replied to on the year of submitting this document.