A
banker, who only gave his name as Kingsley, has lamented the loss of his newly
wedded wife, Adaoma, to gunmen suspected to be kidnappers.
Adaoma
and her husband were abducted on June 11, 2017 while on their way back to Port
Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, from Ekpoma, Esan-West in Edo State.
The deceased and her husband wedded on April 29, 2017
in Port Harcourt.
Narrating
how they were accosted by heavily armed kidnappers around Rumuoji in Emohua LGA
of Rivers State, husband to the deceased, who insisted that his name should not
be mentioned, explained that he tried to escape from the kidnappers with the
reverse gear immediately they came out of the bush.
“When
they saw that I was making an attempt to escape, they began to shoot at the
bonnet sporadically and the engine of my car stopped immediately. They came and
dragged us out of the car and moved us into the bush.
“The
kidnappers were in two groups; one of the groups took my wife to one direction
while the other took me to another direction. We were attacked and taken away
at about 3.40pm. I was asking them (kidnappers) about my wife’s whereabouts and
they assured me that she was with the other group.
“By
the time I saw my wife, she had collapsed and her face was swollen. I became
afraid and begged them that they should release us so that I could take her to
the hospital. They gave me the beating of my life. That was about 8pm.
“When
I continued to beg them, they allowed me to call a friend of mine (James) to
drive down to the main road that night to pick my wife and rush her to the
hospital. The kidnappers ordered me to carry her to the road while they
followed me.
“The
entire place was dark and I carried my wife and tried to wait and have a rest,
the kidnappers would again begin to beat me. This continued until we got to the
road. I was told to lay my unconscious wife by the side of the highway with
some leaves used to surround her for easy identification.
“They
immediately marched me back to the bush. My friend, who knew that we were
kidnapped, travelled from Port Harcourt that night to the point where my
unconscious wife was dropped. He eventually took her to the hospital, where she
was confirmed dead,” the devastated Kingsley added.
The
husband, who was eventually released by the hoodlums around midnight, told our
correspondent that he was still shocked that Adaoma, who he married five weeks
earlier, was killed by kidnappers.
Describing
her as an easy-going, God-fearing person and a devout Christian, the husband
explained that he was beaten to a pulp after the kidnappers spoke with his
pastor, adding that his pastor had cursed them for abducting me and my wife.
“They
gave me another round of beating when my pastor spoke with them through my
phone and cursed them. My wife must have been punched in the face or hit
several times with the butt of a gun. They were dragging her along the bush.
That might have caused her to collapse and died,” he said amid tears.
He
explained that he had been traumatised by his experience in the bush and felt
that the kidnappers could still waylay him again.
However,
the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Nnamdi Omoni, said he was not
aware of the incident and promised to reach the Divisional Police Officer in
charge of Emohua, where the incident happened.
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