The two girls aged 14 and 16 were kidnapped on February 1, 2024, from their home at about 1am when gunmen broke into their home located at Guita community, Chikakore, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the FCT.
Two abducted sisters based in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Success and Kufre Adeola have narrated their painful experience in the hands of their abductors after spending two months in captivity.
The sisters while recounting their ordeal on Sunday during a "Thanksgiving Service" at the Christ Victorious Church, Kubwa, Abuja said they were turned to cooks and made to prepare foods for the kidnappers and other victims in the bush.
The two girls aged 14 and 16 were kidnapped on February 1, 2024, from their home at about 1am when gunmen broke into their home located at Guita community, Chikakore, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the FCT.
She said they were made to trek for five days in the bush from Abuja to Kaduna upon their abduction where they were taken and kept for two months.
She added that they were fed with garri mixed with salt and maggi with dirty water while in the bush.
According to her, “ We were kidnapped on January 29, 2024. They burgled into our house through the fence and they carried me and my sister. They took us toward the bush side and we walked for five days to Kaduna.
“They demanded the sum of N30million for ransom but all together my family brought N9.5million and they released us on March 26, 2024.
“While we were there, they gave us rice and beans for the period we stayed there with them. I was the one cooking for them. We bathed twice in a week Monday and Thursday.”
Kufre added that they were always sleeping on the floor on the ground with scorpions and snakes moving around them.
SaharaReporters reported on February 7 how the kidnappers put a phone call to the father of the victims, Sunday Adeola and agreed to reduce the ransom from N30million to N5 million and also threaten to kill the girls if the money was not complete.
The distraught mother of the victims, Nancy Adeola who addressed the church on behalf of the family expressed gratitude to the church, friends and family members for the show of love during the incident.