Kidnappers freed us before security escort – Teacher

A teacher rescued aft spending 56 days successful captivity pursuing the abduction of unit and pupils successful Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, Zacchaeus Olatunde, has claimed that the kidnappers released the victims earlier information unit aboriginal escorted them home.

Speaking during a telephone interrogation with Nigeria Info FM, Olatunde said the captives were kept blindfolded passim their ordeal and had nary thought wherever they were being held.

“We didn’t adjacent cognize if we were successful Nigeria oregon different country,” helium said.

He added that they feared the authorities had forgotten them. He besides claimed the abductors spoke Hausa, Nupe, English and Yoruba and identified themselves arsenic members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), saying, “They said they are not Boko Haram. They said they are ISWAP.”

Olatunde said the victims were fed doubly regular with rice, beans and different basal nutrient items but were not allowed to commune initially.

According to him, aft astir a month, the kidnappers allowed prayers but warned them “not to notation the sanction of Jesus and not to commune aloud.”

He said the captives were released aft the group’s commandant told them to convey God that we had been freed.

The teacher added that the victims walked for astir an hr earlier motorcycles took them adjacent a village, wher...