The Sun driver escapes from Kidnappers den

The Custodian April 17, 2014

Mr Amanze Eric Achonu, a driver with The Sun Publishing Limited, who was abducted on Tuesday by kidnappers at Rumuji Community in Rivers State, along the East- West Road, has regained his freedom.

Achonu escaped from the kidnappers den at about 3am yesterday while his abductors were fast asleep. His kidnappers had contacted the company’s Aba plant and demanded a ransom of N2 million before he would be released.

Achonu, in an interview shortly after his escape thanked God for surviving the ordeal. According to him it was God that made all of them to sleep before he woke up and seized the opportunity to escape. Achonu, while narrating his ordeal, said the kidnappers beat him and even when he told them that he was a driver with The Sun Publishing Limited, they said his company would look for him.

His words: “On Tuesday morning when I was coming to Yenagoa from Aba, just before Rumuji, I was following a truck that suddenly bumped into the barricade on the road. I tried to manoºeuver and the next thing was that I was in the bush with the car and some boys had surrounded me. They took me out and beat me. I told them that I am a driver with The Sun and that I was going to distribute newspapers; they said my company would come and look for me.

“They used cloth to blindfold me and tied my hands.  They collected the money on me, my ID card and my driver’s license. I was led into the forest and we walked for 3 kilometres before we stopped at their camp.”

They cooked but I refused to eat and only requested for water. We all slept and I woke up and escaped.”

Achonu explained that he followed the track road in the forest until he got to a community at Emohua where he found a Baptist Church and stayed till about 6.30am before he went to the Police station.