Two Lagos-based oil merchants, Managing Director of Kings Petroleum Limited, Lagos, Hammed Fashola, and Dapo Coker, Managing Director, Dapsey Petroleum Limited, at the weekend, narrated their experiences during their stay in the kidnappers’ den at Isheri-Osun area of the state.
Sunday Independent could recall that on Monday last week, the police in Lagos paraded Kelvin Igah, Victor Igah, Kingsley Chukwuma, and Kelvin’s wife, Ogechi, for allegedly kidnapping Fashola, demanding N50million ransom for his freedom.
However, the Kings Petroleum boss told our correspondent at the weekend that from the manner the kidnappers revealed some secrets about his life and businesses, during his three-day stay at the den, there are strong indications that they might have been contracted by some insiders to nail him.
According to him, Kingsley Igah, who led the operation, told him point-blank, when he was abducted on November 13, near his house at about 7.15pm, after closing from work, that they (the kidnappers) trailed and monitored his movements for weeks before the fateful day.
His words: “The kidnappers, when they intercepted my car near my house, blind-folded me and took the N300, 000 cash, destroyed my i-phone and began to tell me about the farm business I was running at Ibadan, Oyo State, which nobody knows”.
He said that when he was taken to 18, Odeniyi Ishola Street, in Isheri-Osun, Lagos, that fateful night, the masked kidnappers chained him, and demanded N50million.
“When I told them I do not have such money, since I was still a struggling, man, they demanded the phone number of my wife, and after calling her and negotiating, we finally settled for N2 million, which the abductors insisted must be paid in dollars, or else, they could transfer me to Bayelsa State, where I might be killed.
“For three days, while in chains inside the toilet, where I was kept by the abductors, Ogechi, wife of Kelvin, was instructed to cook food for me, which I refused to eat, depending only on water for survival”.
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