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.
According to Punch, 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, said 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 b*tt 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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