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Kidnappers release Lulu’s mother
Written by The Punch Wednesday, 21 July 2010
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The mother of the President of Nigeria Football
Federation, Sani Lulu, was on Monday night released by her kidnappers at
Ogbulafor in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State.
The
Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Abdullahi Magaji, who spoke to
reporters in Lokoja on Tuesday, said the old woman Alhaja Laruba
Abdullahi, was abandoned at the place by her captors.
Narrating
her ordeal, Laruba said the kidnappers neither molested nor treated her
badly. She said her meal throughout her period in the kidnappers’ den
was a loaf of bread, which she was given daily.
She
said, “It was around 5pm (on July 12) while I was at home that some
strangers invaded my house and took me away. When we got to a bushy
area, the people blindfolded me.”
“I cannot say the exact
area I was taken to, but one thing I noticed is that I was kept in a
dark room.
“I was fed with loaves of bread throughout
but they did not maltreat me at all. I only found myself at Ogbulafor
around 10.30pm on Monday.
While speaking on the issue,
the Kogi State Police boss said that an informant on Monday afternoon
told him on the telephone that the old woman had been abandoned at a
location.
He, however, explained that he instantly told
the informant that police were not ready to part with any ransom except
what he described as “information money.”
Magaji stated
that immediately he got the information, he dispatched men from the
anti-terrorism unit to the spot, adding that after combing everywhere
at Ugholawo in Ofu Local Government without success, the woman was later
found at Ogbulafor by a police inspector on Monday night.
He
commended his colleagues in the Enugu State Police Command, saying that
no ransom was paid to get the old woman released.
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