A family member of the late Speaker of Edo State, Hon Zakawanu Garuba whose wife Hassana Garuba was kidnapped with her driver while conveying the remains of her late husband said that he was beaten mercilessly by her abductors when he went to deliver the ransom to free their daughter-in-law.
The family member who does not want his name mentioned said the abductors said he provoked them when he raised his voice while he was trying to locate them to pay the ransom.
He said: “It was a terrible experience after going through the trauma of bringing the late Speaker home from Abuja. They were ahead of us then later I got calls from people at home that they saw the late Speaker’s mum along Okenne road near a police post.
They collected jewelleries and all the money they had from her and the mother of the late Speaker’s wife because they were old people and then went away with Hajia and her driver Ahmed.
“Immediately I located them, they started beating me, they said when I got to one village while trying to locate them, I shouted at them on the phone. They were beating me, slapping, hitting me with the flat side of their cutlasses.
“While they were beating me, I asked them if you kill me and take this money and I did not see the people that I brought the money to free, how will they feel because I had to now engage them. So at the end of the day, they left me and collected the money and the food that I brought and they said I should wait that Hajia is inside the bush.
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