Happiness Ajayi, one of the two men whisked away into the bush by kidnappers on Christmas day in Ekiti after his co-traveller was rescued by combined security agencies has regained freedom.
The Commandant of the State Security Network, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, retired Brig Gen Joe Komolafe made this known to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Monday.
He said the victim was rescued from the kidnappers after serious manhunt on them. Komolafe however denied offering payment of any ransom by anyone to secure the release of the victim.
He revealed that his men did what was required of them since Friday and succeeded in getting him on Monday afternoon where he was left alone.
He was said to have been released in a forest in Isapa community of Kwara state at few minutes after 2pm.
He said his men had been in the forest since the day of the incident, combing every area, in search of the kidnapped victim.
According to him, the abductors later had to abandon him after the manhunt for them by the Amotekun men became too hot for them to bear. ”
Immediately the incident happened on Friday, our men were on ground and that was how we were able to rescue his cousin from the gunmen. ”
We were on their trail since that day in the forest and when they sense we were closing on them, he was abandoned midway in a forest at Isapa in Kwara state after which they fled”, he said.
Also when asked to narrate his ordeal to newsmen, Ajayi said he was made to trek long distances bare footed in the forest since Friday by his abductors, and that he was not given any food .
He said the abductors also threatened to take him to Zamfara through the forest if he failed to cooperate with them .
Ajayi noted that the abductors were six in number, and that it was only one of them that could speak English language while the five others spoke in Hausa.
Ajayi was kidnapped along Isan-Iludun-Ekiti road, in Oye local government area alongside another man, Oluwaseun Fatile, said to be his cousin.
