BY MAYOWA SAMUEL
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has reunited two female secondary school students who were kidnapped on Friday in Ogun State with their families.
They were allegedly kidnapped at the Agbado-crossing area of Ogun State on their way to school.
The school girls, Zainab Rafiu, 18 and Kehinde Adeogun, 16, of Odewale Community High School, Ojurin, Agbado, Ogun State, said they were whisked away by a three-man gang.
Narrating their ordeals, the bewildered students explained that a strange vehicle suddenly parked beside them on their way and ordered them to enter the car, with AK-47 rifles pointed at them.
The girls were unable to explain how they found themselves in Oyo from Ogun State.
Both of them said their abductors carried two AK-47 rifles when they were being taken into the thick bush, possibly to ritualists.
They said that their kidnappers, who spoke in Yoruba, on getting to the forest, tied them with ropes separately, after which they left them and went away.
“One of the kidnappers, speaking in Yoruba said that our lives will soon end inside the bush,” said Kehinde, one of the abducted students, who said she struggled to untie herself with her teeth, after which she untied her friend.
She said they immediately fled and without knowing where they were going for over two hours inside the thick forest.
She said they eventually got to a main road, and that upon enquiry from passersby, they were told the road was an expressway in Oyo town.
Respite came the way of Kehinde, because she is an indigene of Oyo, but does not know how she could locate the family’s house. She said they found a food vendor’s shop where Kehinde requested for a mobile phone to contact her parents in Abeokuta to let them know their whereabouts.
Out of sympathy, the food vendor was able to release her phone to Kehinde who called both her parents and that of her friend. The father of Kehinde responded by sending a number which his daughter called in the town who later came to their aid.
One Alhaji Ogunsola was said to have rushed to where the abducted girls were and took them to the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo.
The Point gathered that when information reached the Alaafin, he immediately directed that the Directorate of State Security to take care of the students.
The younger brother to Kehinde’s father, Quasim Wasiu, later arrived the palace of the Alaafin from Agbado crossing in Ogun State to receive Kehinde Adeogun, along with Samuel Adebanjo Adeogun.
Attempts to get comments from both the Ogun and Oyo State Police Commands proved abortive.
