Amos Ogunrinde.
Job creation has been identified as one of the ways to reduce criminal activities in Nigeria.
A victim of recent kidnapping, ALHAJI Suleiman Akinbami made this known to Radio Nigeria in Ado-Ekiti while narrating his ordeal in kidnappers den.
ALHAJI Akinbami who is a petroleum dealer in Ekiti state appealed to Government at all levels to provide employment opportunities for teeming Nigerians, noting that this would curb crimes in the society.
The petroleum dealer said his abductors described themselves as graduates who could not secure jobs which led them to crime.
According to him “nobody is safe in the country until government do the needful by creating jobs for the masses”
He disclosed that his abductors spoke English and Yoruba languages fluently during their conversations which made him to doubt their ethnic origin.
ALHAJI Akinbami pointed out that the suspected kidnappers threatened to kill him when his vehicle developed minor fault on the way which was later rectified.
“The battery of my vehicle had issue and we opened the Burnett to look at it , after that the fuel also finished along that road, when they, the ( kidnappers) searched for fuel and they could not get, we spent the night on the road“
He added that after getting petrol, the journey continued the following day until they alighted and trekked inside the forest for many hours before they got to the base of the abductors where another victim was met.
ALHAJI Akinbami said he was fed with bread during his seven days in the den of the kidnappers somewhere in Kogi state and that he was also beaten.
The petroleum dealer stressed that his abductors beat and shot one of the victims in their custody before he ( Akinbami) was relocated to another base.
On the issue of ransom, the petroleum dealer pleaded that he would not like to talk on it. “please and please, let us leave that for God’s sake, I value my life“.
Alhaji Akinbami therefore thanked God and the people of Ekiti state for their concerns and his safe return home.
